again at an israeli settlement in the west bank. will the resumed construction derail mideast peace talks? once again, a flarl time disappearing, not really going away. airtran, a discount carrier based in orlando, florida, is being bought by southwest. the dallas-based carrier known for doing things its own way and often quite successfully. southwest is paying $1.4 billion in cash and stock. when you figure in air trans's debt and lease obligations the price comes to $3.4 billion. at the moment, each carrier flies to 69 u.s. cities but southwest is quite a bit larger. last year, for instance, southwest, which you can see on the west, flew more than 100 million passengers. airtran on the right flew 24 million passengers. southwest flew 544 aircraft. airtran has 138. the vast majority of both of those aircraft, however, are 737 s, making it easy to maintain team. if regulators and shareholders