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                                                                       EXHIBIT E

                                ARTICLE EIGHTH

                             AMENDED AND RESTATED

                         CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

                                      OF

                            DART GROUP CORPORATION

        EIGHTH.  Each person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a
party to, or is involved in any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or
proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a 
"Proceeding"), by reason of the fact that he or she or a person of whom he or 
she is the legal representative, is or was a director or officer of the
Corporation, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the
fullest extent permitted from time to time by the General Corporation Law of the
State of Delaware as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, if
permitted by applicable law, in the case of any such amendment, only to the
extent that such amendment permits the Corporation to provide broader
indemnification rights than said law permitted the Corporation to provide prior
to such amendment) or any other applicable laws as presently or hereafter in
effect. The Corporation may, by action of the Board of Directors, provide
indemnification to employees and agents (other than a director or officer), of
the Corporation, to directors, officers, employees or agents of any subsidiary
of the Corporation, and to each person serving at the request of the Corporation
or any of its subsidiaries as a director, officer, partner, member, employee, or
agent of another corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint
venture, trust or other enterprise, with the same scope and effect as the
foregoing indemnification of directors and officers of the Corporation. The
Corporation shall be required to indemnify any person seeking indemnification in
connection with a Proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person only if
such Proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors or is
a Proceeding to enforce such person's claim to indemnification pursuant to the
rights granted by this Certificate of Incorporation or otherwise by the
Corporation. Without limiting the generality or the effect of the foregoing, the
Corporation may enter into one or more agreements with any person which provide
for indemnification greater or different than that provided in this ARTICLE
EIGHTH. Any amendment or repeal of this ARTICLE EIGHTH shall not adversely
affect any right or protection existing hereunder in respect of any act or
omission occurring prior to such amendment or repeal.

