The plan included bringing in a new management team, improving aircraft utilization and focusing on lucrative routes.

They also hope to persuade foreign governments to provide greater access to American carriers that seek to increase their lucrative international routes.

Furman continued to accumulate good reports and promotions to increasingly lucrative routes.

Which airline will choose to pursue a potentially lucrative route under that alliance?

Pan Am, for example, never found a way to feed domestic passengers into its lucrative foreign routes.

Low-fare airlines, for example, are rapidly adding flights to compete with major carriers on the most lucrative routes.

Meanwhile, they have been shifting larger planes from domestic routes to more lucrative international routes.

The violence followed a dispute between bus and truck drivers of the two ethnic groups over the most lucrative routes.

The airline also gave up some lucrative routes to assure the government that the merger would not reduce competition.

The cartels have fought for years over control of lucrative routes and the drivers who serve them.