Originally Posted by hockeypilot44

Not exactly. At Delta, the Delta union signed a letter of agreement instantly improving their own situation. The NWA union was not part of this. Then Lee Moak's response was that their new LOA would be something to build off of for the JCBA. The JCBA ended up being exactly the same as the new Delta contract after the LOA. At that point, the Northwest pilots had no choice, but to vote yes. The Delta pilots could have voted it down and screwed the NWA pilots, but the Delta pilots have never voted anything down. It passed on both sides, and Delta had a joint contract before the SLI was ever decided. The SLI went into effect the day it was released. About 6 months later, pilots were crossing over.