re Air Atlanta:
One, or rather, "the scenario" to get two parked freighters back into biz was to sell them (don´t know to whom) and lease them back, whilst having them operated by Air Atlanta crews.
The advantage of this "deal" being the much greater "flexibility" (at an extra cost of ca. 500k € per ac p. a.).
In a memo Air Atlanta was described as having a much less (!!!) homogenous group of pilots (than DLH) - consisting of a "golden" core of well-paid pilots, some folks earning a little less (the "silver" group) and the "bronze" group on the outside, whom he compared to "quasi-freelancers" who can be "set free at two weeks notice"...
"Of course management would like to see a flexible in-house (Lufthansa Cargo) solution, but the numbers have to add up, blablabla..."
Basically everyone is seeing the currently huge market potential for us, but they´re scared sh@tless that GWB will pull some stunt on Saddam.