Well since I can't read the future I don't know what the 4Q 10Q will report. It will however be out in a few days and we will know if they retired the 9 more planned nines. I hope they did not. It would be a good thing. The fact remains however that the aircraft are approaching 40 years old. They are not going to be around long term period. Why is that so hard to accept. In the last 5 years Delta retired two fleets of more modern aircraft in the same size range. When I posted that NWA would be down to 62 nines several of you came on here and stated that they would not go below 90 airframes this year. Well we know they got to 67 so I would say my numbers were just a bit more accurate! Even if we end up at the end of the year with 67 airframes 1/3 of the fleet was retired in 12 months.