My understanding is PCL ALPA has a contract with Delta to have at least 81 CRJ-900's for 7 years. Some may argue that Delta owes 7 years of wages to the pilots that would staff those aircraft if Delta winds PCL down. If they wind PCL down in a year some pilots would get 6 years of pay. This contract is between ALPA and Delta not PCL corp. This would be my understanding on why people think they would owe years of wages to some pilots.