Tom Lydon of ETF Trends reported yesterday that Claymore is expected to launch the first Airline ETF in early 2009, which will contain 26 passenger airlines with a mix of 70% domestic and 30% global companies. It remains to be seen if the Airline ETF will experience a similar fate as recently launched, narrow-focused transport funds, including the Claymore/Delta Global Shipping Index (SEA) and PowerShares Global Progressive Transport Portfolio (PTRP) – which were launched this past fall and have attracted $9.6M and $1.8M in net assets, respectively, versus nearly $500M in net assets for the iShares Dow Transports (IYT).