Thanks very much for the welcomes! I can't believe it took me this long to find these boards (and then the appropriate few weeks to get a feel for them - this is a great group!)

The Copenhagen problem was in the days of the L1011 - I always liked the three engine compromise - don't get me started on transpac 777's.

I wonder whether part of their challenge was due to the bigger (D10/L10/747-100) aircraft having more belly room (I've been accused of that myself) so cargo was a bigger deal economically and caused them to offload less cargo back then than they do now - so they stop for fuel less often.

I'm sure it's for a different forum, but I once had a critical cargo package offloaded by UA from SFO to ZRH because it was displaced by asparagus for the annual Swiss spargl (sp?) festival - for 5 days no cargo had moved between the US and Switzerland unless it was green or white and went well with hollandaise sauce. Lost a big order because of that - I now have a psychosomatic allergy to asparagus.

Greg99

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