CargoRat, your point well up the page regarding BA freight business. Surely the Atlas aircraft flying for BA is painted in BA colours and uses a BA callsign, albeit with an american accent. Why can't they just continue doing this but with their own aircraft and crews? BA has a huge freight business, however, most of it travels at low cost in passenger aircraft bellies. Same story in CX, who also have a large freight business. HKIA is the world's busiest International freight hub and 65% of the freight passing through there is on passenger aircraft. My point, of course the business is there for a BA dedicated freighter fleet and BA already enjoy an excellent reputation as a freight hauling airline. The parallel with CX is sound, a large and increasing freighter fleet to complement the freight capacity of the passenger aircraft.