Maybe. I'll hang onto this one in case the cheese slides off your cracker again, and you hook back up with Timmy and Seham.

Fair enough. As plenty of people have pointed out, the flying belongs to the airline that contracts with other operators to fly. They pay PCL by the hour to fly Delta passengers, who buy Delta tickets, to fly to cities in Delta's network. Nothing in the TA changes that arrangement. PCL will still operate. They will probably operate fewer RJ's because of the restrictions in the TA, but the number of pilots they employ to do so is not determined by the Delta TA. If they choose to carry a surplus of pilots, as we have done in the past, then PCL won't furlough anybody.

I'm not trying to be cute here by suggesting that pilots won't be furloughed as a result of this shift in flying, but your inference that it's perilous legal grounds is unfounded. Had our TA changed the staffing formula sections of PCL, CMR, etc contracts, you might have a point.