This is a pointless argument. This same discussion was made when the B747 was coming down the line!! Regards, Peter Schneider ATL 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 *******************Internet Email Confidentiality Footer******************* The contents of this e-mail message (including any attachments hereto) are confidential to and are intended to be conveyed for the use of the recipient to whom it is addressed only. If you receive this transmission in error, please notify the sender of this immediately and delete the message from your system. Any distribution, reproduction or use of this message by someone other than recipient is not authorized and may be unlawful.