My personal opinion is I would prefer 3. There are a myriad of minutiae issues that will arise during committee deliberations and after a thorough discussion, if the issue is 2-1, you press on. But with 4, if it's 2-2, you're in a deadlock over what is likely an issue of not that much significance. That leads to a very inefficient system, imo. I also honestly don't care what the pre-merger background of any pilot on that committee is. With the exception of the NWA DB, we are all working under the same contract, and all affected by the decisions of this MEC in the same way. Their pre-merger affiliation is irrelevant to me, and for the life of me, I can't understand why so many are still hung up over that.

If the individual members of the MEC don''t start viewing themselves as Delta pilots, rather than fNWA or fDAL pilots, we are all truly doomed. I have confidence that, IF THEY CAN GET BEYOND THAT, they will pick the best group (it may very well be the same 4, or it may not be, I don't know and don't care) and we will do great, regardless of the size of the committee.

Just my opinion.