On the 345's that's total BS, we would like to go in another direction. Thai is trying to offload theirs and are trying to spice up the market a little.
744's...the proposal is going to be to park the whole lot- obviously there is an effort on the go to get rid of them but its probably safe to say we wont be able to offload all of them and so what doesn’t go will wined up looking at the fence in the technical area. The numbers are really against these machines, the revised schedule- without them in it, but still including their lease costs- saves us a few hundred million a year, its hard to justify keeping them on in the face of that. Its going to be a really sad day if the board agree’s…which they probably will, money is money.
To answer the question on Mango…..they are well ahead of their projections and are trading in the black. What’s interesting to note here is if a comparison is done on SAA’s domestic passenger numbers for February 06 vs Feb 07,there about a 4% growth- given the fact that Feb 06 also included GRJ which is not the case in Feb 07 this figure is all the more interesting. So if Mango is not hurting SAA then where are these pax coming from?