Originally Posted by Carl Spackler

Fine Alan. I can't study this for myself now, so I'll say for the sake of argument you're correct. I'll rephrase my post on the premise you'll actually respond to the point of it:

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The single act of adding Alitalia to the AF/KLM side of the Atlantic JV REDUCED our share of EASK's and INCREASED the Euro's share of the EASK's.

Even with the addition of Alitalia, our percentage share of this JV's EASK's has dropped from the new baseline agreed to in the immediate aftermath of Alitalia's addition. Since we're talking about percentages between two sides, that means Delta pilot's share of the flying has DECREASED while the Euro's share has INCREASED. This has damaged Delta pilots and continues to do so. People who try to spin this to the contrary are beyond understanding.

I'm absolutely stunned and amazed that sailingfun, DALPA, and even you are fighting so incredibly hard to spin this non-compliance as something that really hasn't harmed us because (you say) we've never actually gone backward as a result. This population of apologists for management gives management an amazing advantage against this pilot group.

Carl