Originally Posted by
Reroute
I believe it's the Delta fleet commitment in CMR LOA 01-07 and whether wholly owned or not, is irrelevant. The NMB, the RLA, the PWA and the C&BLs don't differentiate between who is wholly owned and who is not with regards to bargaining.
The CMR fleet agreement was signed by CMR management, not DAL management. If it were broken, the CMR pilots could only grieve it with CMR management, not DAL, regardless of their wholly owned status. Theoretically fleet counts could be maintained by flying for other airlines, or even an "Indy Air" or ExpressJet type of operation as well, but of course that never happened. Either way though, CMR pilots never "owned" any DAL flying directly with DAL management.