> Specifically, the Defense Department is seeking to repeal > Section 2710 of the Emergency Wartime Supplemental > Appropriations Act of 2003. That section requires that > contracts be awarded to air carriers with American > ownership of 50 percent or more. That is the level that is > required for airlines to be certified as domestic carriers > by the Transportation Department. The correct figures is 51% American owned. > > > The Pentagon already has the ability to grant contracts to > foreign airlines case by case if no American carrier is > willing to assume the risk of a flight. In the past, the > Pentagon has chartered flights by Volga Dnepr Airlines of > Russia and Ukrainian Cargo Airways. I'm sure the Pentagon contracted with these two airlines not because other airlines were "(un)willing to assume the risk of a flight." They probably used them because their aircraft can take oversized cargo.