It's not you and I brother, it's DALPA. The union is going to do what is best for the company. The best thing for the company is to keep the alliance intact and status quo. Basically, we drop all code share agreements with Alaska on any competing routes, which is what has be going down.

Alaska is unique because they have many destinations in their structure that have no other operators at all. This means that if Alaska gets the boot from the alliance, the alliance looses all of these unique destinations. That would reduce the value of the alliance, which Delta doesn't necessarily want. If Delta wanted that, they would have already done it. Since thats the case, there will be something in the new contract allowing the current situation to continue, even if we deem Seattle a hub.