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Singapore Airlines, Asia's most valuable flag-carrier, said Wednesday it had ordered up to 31 long-range Boeing 777-300 jetliners as it expands its fleet.

The airline, known for its friendly staff, TVs at every seat and cheap fares, is mirroring the legacy carriers more closely as it increases in size, expands its fleet and introduces plans for a premium cabin on lucrative routes between New York and Los Angeles and San Francisco.

With oil prices rising, its business has been good, so it expanded its fleet — and its debt.

Raising fares, for one, which will be hard for JetBlue because it is expanding its fleet and thus the supply of seats to sell.

Trying to return to profitability after its failed merger with United Airlines, US Airways announced yesterday that it would expand its fleet of regional jets, try to join one of the big global airline alliances and seek greater concessions from unions.

And in the latest sign of how the momentum for natural gas in transportation is accelerating, United Parcel Service plans to announce in the next few days that it will expand its fleet of heavy 18-wheel vehicles running on liquefied natural gas, or L.N.G., to 800 by the end of 2014, from 112.

After failing to persuade Boeing to "play its part" in Ryanair's cost-reduction efforts, Mr. O'Leary said Friday that, starting in 2012, the airline would begin distributing to investors the cash that it would have spent expanding its fleet.

The company says it would have to expand its fleet slightly to handle the contract.

Now it's starting to expand its fleet by renovating two ships that will sail this spring.

In the decades following its founding, the airline expanded its fleet and destinations but it was adversely affected by corruption and mismanagement.

It is in talks with both Boeing and Airbus about expanding its fleet by up to 200 new aircraft but has not made a final decision.