And yet you try and obfuscate the facts. With the current contract, the company needs to add more seats over to Europe to be in compliance or we sign the new contract resetting the definition of compliance and furthermore can remove a large amount of seats and still be in compliance. Trying to tell us the new language is a positive is either gross incompetence in understanding the difference between more and less or a willful obfuscating of the issue in the hopes that repeating the lie over and over will get pilots who always trust ALPA to blindly follow.

We have been flying 757s over to Europe as long as AF has been using A380s. We fly to various destinations with two men crews (under 117 we can do almost half of Europe with a crew of 2) and if we add 737s like United has, we can continue to down gauge the flying.

As soon as we signed the JV in 2000, AF went on a 777 buying spree to add more capacity over to the US. We have been shrinking our European operation for the past 15 years and Anderson is pretty clear he prefers to sell tickets not fly passengers, across the pond.

You can spin this section as much as you wish but it is without a doubt the largest outsourcing of flying Delta has planned in a long time. To agree to it is crazy. We have to hold the line in the amount of scope we give up or we will become the domestic feeder for foreign international carriers.

AC