thanks for all the input. the company i work for handles both BD and BA so i been exposed to both DCS and LH WAB. seems like ba has built alot of functionality into their system. how widely used is dplan though. virgin uses it for all their flights. (is it the system that swissport uses for most of the airlines that it provided load control to or are they just using it on behalf of virgin. i know swissport uses axscontrol at alot of other airports.)