Interesting thoughts welshman!. .Where did you get all the numbers from?. .I also believe that many airlines overreacted to the tragedy, however, many airlines found buisness to be a struggle even before the 11th of september. Many airlines took advantage of the tragedy to cut away the company's deadloads such as ineffective employees and routes not doing too well aswell as making customers believe the increased fares were justified. Perhaps these increases in travel costs would have been justified even before, but by blaming it all on the crash, it made it more understandable. . . But your analasys seems to be correct, I just want to know where the numbers came from.... .. .regards/lns