In a message dated 12/11/2003 6:18:12 AM Pacific Standard Time, mmontano@xxxxxxxxx writes: << Canadian's prime pickings were their 744/DC10 dominated routes to Asia, so much so that Air Canada tried to buy only those routes... but after a nasty acquisition battle they ended up saddled with all of Canadian's debt, their planes, their liabilities which of course was the nail in their coffin. >> Of course, they got rid of their 744s and are probably kicking themselves for it, unless the lease rates sucked. In any case, they would probably do really well with the Indian routes by grabbing up connecting traffic from SFO also. Big Indian population in Silicon. It is a wonder that UA stopped their LAX-HKG-DEL flights. I know someone who became a 1k flyer with that one.