The 3 planes that are leaving are pax birds that were originally leased by DAL from the owners. When DAL parked the MD-11, World subleased them from DAL. When DAL went BK, UPS purchased the planes and aggreed to sub lease them to World until they could be converted. They will be leaving at the end of the year. We are crossing our fingers because the company stated no job losses because of the upcoming B747 pax to freight conversions hitting at about the same time.

We have extended the long term leases on the freighters until well past 2010.

As to the paint job, there is a definite lack of orginality. After we painted N803 in our retro 1970's paint, there was a call for a new paint job. After an employee vote, we got the UPS lines with DAL colors. I think there must have been a sale in ATL or DAL forgot to pay for a batch of paint. The ironic thing is that the 3 planes going back to UPS don't have the new paint livery.

All the signs are there that World is in play. We are just hanging on to see what happens. The bottom guys on our list are bailing out. In one respect, we are merging with UPS. It's just happening one pilot at a time