No FAA problems with the B747 fleet - recent audit of AD records, etc came up clean. It is however, further proof that the day of the B747-200 as a viable freighter is over. Still a place for niche marketing of the A300 freighter, Tradewinds is over thirty five years old started with Connies, going to CL44, then L-1011 and on to A300 and B747. It has survived a lot and may well survive $150 oil. Don't count it out quite yet.
One of the furloughed QC folks