If there were any such language, it would have been stated. Instead, just the money "penalty" was published.

So here's what we've done:

1. Agreed to this JV only because it would be a job grower for Delta pilots.

2. Delta went immediately to the minimum level, then below costing Delta pilot jobs.

3. Delta ignored the cure period and remained in violation.

4. DALPA agreed to $2,500 per pilot as punishment, and no requirement of newer protection language.

5. Current production balance in favor of the Euro partners is now the new law.

6. We Delta pilots have now set the legal precedent that Scope violation and permanent reset of a production balance, is cureable with money.

As I have said so many times (regretfully) before, our Scope language is entirely voluntary. Management can violate it at will, then pay pennies on the dollar to permanently reset the language.

Carl