Originally Posted by alfaromeo

I was intimately involved in the costing of this and I have all of the info. Tom made a mistake, this is not cost neutral. There were hours and hours of briefings so it is understandable if something was missed.

By the way, there is no direct value placed in many items that are very important to pilots for instance additional JV protections, additional furlough protections, the block hour ratio (which is the most valuable improvement to scope since I have been a Delta pilot), and many other scope gains. For some of these items, other than this negotiation, you would have to buy a controlling share of Delta stock to have this type of control. Despite the web board rhetoric, these were difficult items for management to swallow and in my opinion, many of them will not return in three or four years when we could possibly complete negotiations if this agreement fails.