Here?s a question for some of our list experts. I was doing a search in Sabre and found some interesting city pairs between Europe and western Africa, principally on Air France but also on SN Brussels and Swiss. Some of these include: CDGNIM Niamey, Niger CDGNKC Nouakchott, Mauritania CDGOUA Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso CDGCKY Conakry, Guinea SSGZRH Malabo, Equatorial Guinea BGFCDG Bangui, Central Africa BRUKGL Kigali, Rwanda BRUROB Monrovia, Liberia CDGCOO Cotonou, Benin My area of expertise is in Latin America, so I apologize in advance of any ignorance. Any idea what these markets principally serve, ie, oil, VFR, former colonial alliance, etc.? It would appear based on frequencies, published fares, and aircraft type that they would net good yield ? but I don?t know anything about most of these smaller cities. Also, is there adequate security and international hotel facilities for the crew or, like in the case of AA in Colombia, do they use locally-based cabin crew or dead-head a second crew to operate the turn and don?t layover at all? In the case of SN Brussels, it says that flights are operated by Birdy Airlines. Anyone know anything about them? Thanks, Brian _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail