What that article did not catch is that Delta approved Pinnacle's budget week to week and even the CRJ200's can be pulled out of the contract, jet by jet, as the financing concludes, or is renegotiated. Delta has the exclusive right to decide the merits of Pinnacle operational plan and budget.

In other words, instead of nuking the place, Delta has an off the books pseudo subsidiary that it had absolute operational control over. All Pinnacle is, is a temp crew provider for DELTA's newest CRJ 200's.

ALPA should recognize it as what it is, the latest form of alter ego.