Yes Sir it does. It converts Delta's "permitted" fleet to a fleet of 81 CRJ900's using the word "Committed" to the Pinnacle pilots. Due to the duration of the agreement, this preempts Delta bargaining.

Alpha is semi-official (close enough to know, distant enough for denial of source ) admin communications. This "trial balloon" (oh yey, we knew and consented) got floated last week and I thought it got shot down hard enough that it surprises me to see a slightly refined version get sent back up this week. To track the changes, Alpha adds the detail of the Delta MEC's compliance with Section 40 in February 2012, and simply spins it as Pinnacle's compliance. (which is fine I guess, but still does not answer the issue of another airline doing a deal directly with Delta management, which is the problem here ... )

The Reps who received the Delta MEC Chair's ASPEN and talked to the gentlemen on the Delta Negotiating Committee probably know better.

Despite the late attempt at web board management there are the votes to call a Special MEC meeting on the Delta property. I do not know the Delta MEC Chairman, but I would guess he would want to be proactive and call the meeting himself than have his Reps do it for him.

Timing stinks, but no one over here had any part in the timing. In fact, if I were a conspiracy theorist I would guess the timing was part of a tactical plan ... which begs the question, what's the emergency? Delta's committing around 2.3 billion in CapEx to Pinnacle. How much of this brinksmanship is simply created to drive the sheep off the cliff?

But I am not a conspiracy theorist. ALPA will reach the correct decision and I will support it.