El Al actually ferried travel agents for free JFK-LAX. The point, as noted below, was that these rights of course only impact paying customers. Similarly these runs can be used by a carrier to ferry people/equipment between points where they have a presence. Dennis W Zeuch <DZTOPS@xxxxxxx> wrote:mgreenwood@xxxxxxxxx writes: > I thought an airline couldn't even carry staff if they didn't have traffic > rights? > No problem-was a regular deal on everyone (Maybe it had to be a 'free' pass without service charge or some other minor regulation) I think the rules only applied to paying passengers not freebies or 'free cargo-service freight, catering materials, mechanical items etc'' Those empty legs where revenue freight and psgrs couldnt be carried went out full of service cargo and other airline staff. Dennis --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now.