I consider myself pretty well informed and I did not know ....

Delta management was very clear they were going to reduce 50 seat flying either with, or without, the Delta pilots. The difference the Delta pilots made was allowing MORE next generation 76 seat jets, which were not allowed in the Joint Pilot Working Agreement. Facilitating the "trade" would expedite a swap into more economically viable equipment. Back channel (unconfirmed) rumor was that the DAL MEC had informally counselled Comair's MEC to bid for the new flying to come.

It appears plan A was to renegotiate with SkyWest. SkyWest refused.

Look; Comair is a Delta asset. No one is pleased to see a part of our Company mismanaged into liquidation. No one is happy to see our management (from Northwest) take this action. There is no reason to believe they view us any differently. It is just that our circumstance is different today.

In case you have not been following our news, our SkyTeam "partners" are eating us alive just as the pantheon of DCI carriers took work you considered to be "yours." Lesson to all of us, our jobs are only as secure as the scope we negotiate.