Originally Posted by Carl Spackler

To avoid very large profit sharing payouts to pilots and other non-Union Delta employees. It's a 3-way win for them:

1. They get us to self fund our gains
2. They pay out far less to pilots given 2015's large profit forecast
3. They pay out far less to non-Union employees because they can do so at their whim and use the pilots' reductions as justification

That's the rush here.

Carl