The regs are changing. Delta probably feels like they are getting punished by the government. That is their problem.

They obviously believe that ALPA agreed with them that reserves have 18 days on call, with 2 different "leashes". The new regs could result in reserves having less than 18 days on call.

If we agreed to 18 days, we should work with them to come up with a notification requirement that eliminates the contractual disconnects you mention. If we believe this is a huge windfall, and reserves should be able to shave off 3-4 days of on call because of the new regs, then the flt operations policy will lead us to an arbitration that we might win or lose, depending on how an arbitrator reads the contractual disconnects you mention.