From: "Grant McKenzie" <gjmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 8:15 PM > Personally, if LH are right, I think major US airports need to get up off their collective ar**s and get > a few gates ready. The plane ain't going to go away and the US is a big travel market. The plane may not go away. but it may not come here either. Alternates don't have to be capable of taking care of the passengers, do they? As long as you can hope to get the plane down in one piece, it's a satisfactory alternate? Gerry http://www.pbase.com/gfoley9999/ http://foley.ultinet.net/~gerry/aerial/aerial.html http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html