I hope your wrong Wash! If you are right it could mean the loss of my job and those of my commrades at both ABX and Astar. Any reduction in block hours or transfer of said block hours to another carrier (FDX or UPS) is due to DHL's management not being able to effectively manage an air and ground delivery system here in the US and their unwillingness to listen to the ABX management to straighten out the problems. It certainly had nothing to do with the professionalism of the GB (ABX) and ER (Astar) flight crews. Unfortunately it probably goes both ways. If you're flying DHL's domestic product here in the US then maybe DHL is going to be flying your packages in the EU. That should make Fred really smile as the pay and benefits for the DHL European pilots lag greatly behind the pay and bennies you and I enjoy here in the US. The giant sucking sound we hear is the sound of Globalization. It is the sound of our jobs going to overseas pilots who will fly for much less. Perhaps we should look for our CEOs overseas as well. Imagine how much the US stockholders could save on Executive compensation if we were to use lower priced managers and CEOs!