Brazil's O Globo and Jornal do Brasil (JB) newspapers report the 'fusion' of Varig and TAM into an "efficient and competive" enterprise. Should be interesting to merge the two disparate fleets of Boeing, Airbus, Fokker and Embraer planes. Contents of these links below are in Portuguese. Can't find any reports in English yet. In an inadvertent move, the JB link had a banner ad for Southwest-lookalike Gol. :-) http://oglobo.globo.com/oglobo/plantao/69454119.htm http://jbonline.terra.com.br/extra/2003/02/06/e0602789.html Regards, Mitchell RIC _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail