Gives more pax access to our flights, allows more flights to be booked by DAL pax(viability of existing routes that otherwise would be marginal), and reduces the need for DAL to take on more debt to serve a marginally logical route that at first whiff of fiscal issues would be dumped and the jets and debt would remain.

Keeps DAL financially strong with the reach and access for revenue without the need for high debt load.

The aviation world is changing and I expect to see these sort of JV's morph over time.

Pilots all want a little boom and and sick of bust. That cannot be discredited.