Perhaps those aircraft are being temporarily assigned to CRAF operations. The Pentagon recently announced they need to move about 30,000 more troops into Iraq fairly quickly. With very weak transatlantic passenger loads anyway, they may as well employ those aircraft. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Fuoco" <jfuoco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 7:32 PM Subject: DL virtually shutting down JFK operation > With DL's capacity cut, looks like pretty much all transatlantic ops are > suspended Apr. 13 - 1 May... looks like it is only temporary for now, but > time will tell...thats an axe of daily FCO, MXP, VCE, NCE, FRA, MAD, 2x > CDG, what else... thats a lot of flights! Hopefully they are just giving > staff a couple weeks of paid vacation!! >