It's hard to say if furloughs at Atlas are a result of market conditions or the company's plan to shift flying to Polar and its UK subsidiary. I saw a comment on another discussion board that indicated some Atlas aircraft tails were being painted white, presumably to allow them to be shifted around. In any case they announced recently that 4 74-400's were being shifted to UK. I expect the Atlas pilots will take this as a threat and as they are able to strike soon we could see Atlas shut down by strike. It's a shame really that Michael Chowdry's gone. He might have handled this differently <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="confused.gif" />