OK, if we are going to start making stuff up, can I play?

A more likely story is that this is a more brutal form of ALPA's outsourcing partnership with management. Pinnacle's airplanes tied directly to their bankruptcy pay rates. An interview promise for a seriously concessionary contract. Effects that fly in the face of the snap back goals in our union's administrative manual.

Which fabrication (and I'll admit mine is created) squares with the known facts? Delta is not merging with Pinnacle. President Moak had the Compass pilots in the Delta MEC and the Company trying to tie up left over bargaining. He wanted no part of getting the Delta pilots' hands dirty in the market which he has determined is not Delta flying.

It is a bloodbath down there and we are making it worse. By doing these concessionary deals with no hope of snap back we are undercutting our own small jet flying. We are encouraging management to outsource.

Worse, we are sidelining and marginalizing the Delta MEC in the process.