The three tiers include: regional/feeder carrier, new-entrant/low-cost/no-frills carrier, and the “megacarrier.

[…] and having eternal aves and angeluses rung in their ears;

He could count on a good fuck with Lorene later on.

[T]he hiss of the plunging shot deafening their ear and giddying the brain, with life and liberty beyond, and behind a doom more dread than death, they fled on through the heavy, breathless night.