Parts of this sound like your Reps did a great job in a very tough situation.

Part of this sounds like the senior pilots are trying to take an unfair advantage.

Go on ALPA's web site >> My ALPA >> e-library. ALPA's policy manual, Section 40, states every effort should be made "...to secure contract language in every ALPA agreement which provides for the preferential hiring of ALPA-represented pilots displaced by furlough, bankruptcy, shutdown or strike." If approved, Pinnacle's proposal would put senior, employed, Captains ahead of those who had lost, or were in the process of losing their jobs. Isn't a flow turning ALPA's guidance upside down?

There is also the issue that Pinnacle is trying to modify the intent of language in the Delta Pilot Working Agreement.

So, ask about the holes. How is Delta bound? What about changes to the Delta pilot working agreement which were not authorized? Are there any other "flows" in the industry that have worked? Where has airline management kept their promise to hire pilots? Or, is this an empty, unfair, use of a promise to sell a concessionary contract which lowers the bar in our profession?

As others have noted, Comair took numerous concessions with the same result. Expect your own Representatives to try to scare the hell out of you to get you to sign of on a deal.