I Hope it not near term. Here are the comments from last week Q & A. Does not look good.
Any ideal on what will happen to the 747-200 Freighters. Will Delta Maintenance work on those.
Tony Charaf (Sep 24, 2008 1:28:58 PM)
My understanding is they are going away.
Tony...I know we always look at paxs, mail, cargo as an aggregate when looking at markets. With a renewed focus on cargo would we not keep a few freighters for lift purposes where we might have a backlog of freight or premium cargo lift required or is there not enough money in cargo to fly a few freighters?
Tony Charaf (Sep 24, 2008 1:41:45 PM)
This is my personal opinion: the 747-200 freighters are not good freighters and that operation is not making money. Cargo businesses within airline businesses have not fared well. Based on that, we need to be very cautious on how we proceed. The final strategy is in the hands of Richard, Ed, Steve and the cargo team.
These comments mirror what Haustein has said. So in the end how many jobs are we talking about?