I voted for the "freeze" LOA. I personally viewed it as "poor man's scope" at the time. It was fairly obvious that DL was headed for Chapter 11 at that time and my thought process was that if we went in with a signed agreement that said OH was to maintain a certain number of aircraft, then there would be at least some semblance of job protection. You didn't have too be a beancounter to determine how badly we were being underbid by our peers at every other DCI carrier and if a two year freeze gave everyone else time to catch up to our contract while maintaining a minimum fleet, then I viewed it as a positive overall. Obviously, with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight I know that it was wrong. I certanly didn't count on DL raping us as badly as they did in BK and in the years since.

Anyway, just a little insight into my one "yes" vote. Thanks for the walk down memory lane... ;-)