"But For" more than forty years DALPA has had contractual FPL. That covers a period of time when dues were lower and dues were higher than they are now and beats you by seven years. It has covered down contracts and up contracts and everything betwixt and between. Yet when an alternative group appears in early 2009* just as the ink has dried from the merger approval on Halloween 2008 and a mere month after the combined operating certificate on New Years Eve 2008, it suddenly becomes an issue?

Coincidence?

*DAL In-House Union Delta Pilots Association