He bribed authorities, ordered killings and, at his peak, lived with the improbable trappings of a Charles Foster Kane: His possessions included submarines, a fleet of airliners and a vast estate, Hacienda Los Nápoles, complete with a private zoo.
Virgin, with a young, efficient fleet of airliners, does well in most of them.
The combined entity, which took United's name, has the biggest fleet of commercial airliners on the planet and flies to more destinations than any competitor.
By the late 1980s Aeroflot's fleet of 1,300 airliners and several thousand smaller planes were serving 3,600 cities and towns in the Soviet Union and flying international routes to more than 100 countries.
But Mr. Schreiber, who is in a Toronto jail awaiting possible extradition to Germany, has said in court papers that the payments were related to the purchase of a fleet of Airbus airliners by Air Canada in 1988, when Mr. Mulroney was prime minister and the carrier was government-owned.
Aircell, an airborne communications provider, will install the network on more than 330 aircraft that makeup Delta's U.S. fleet of passenger airliners.
The country now operates one of the world's oldest fleets of civilian airliners, and it shows: There have been more than two dozen civilian airplane crashes in Iran since 2000.
FILTON, just outside Bristol, is where Britain's fleet of Concorde supersonic airliners was built.
In about ten years, with its five runways and capacity to handle 160m passengers a year, it will be the largest airport in the world.Emirates will also have the biggest fleet of the biggest airliners.
British Airways grounded its entire fleet of Concorde supersonic airliners today after French and British investigators said they would urge the withdrawal of the airplane's airworthiness certification following last month's fatal Air France Concorde crash near Paris.
The resumption of the flights, which Iraq announced on Oct. 30, came nearly a decade after Iraq's fleet of 15 Boeing airliners was moved to Jordan, Iran and Tunisia to escape bombing during the Persian Gulf war, in 1991.
