Heyas,

The Compass sale was facilitated by one thing, and one thing only...releasing the company from the SECTION ONE clause that prohibited the divestiture of CPZ until there was a minimum number of DC-9 replacemen aircraft on the mainline property. Kicking the CPZ guys to the curb was just the end part of a sequence of events.

THAT was part of the JCBA that the fNWA guys had no hand in crafting. That was the way it was going to be, period.

Had the fDAL negotiators NOT given that away (and it was GIVEN away), we'd either still have CPZ or we'd have our DC-9 replacements.

It amazes me still that such an epic crank steppage occured.

Nu