On the top we lose out by switching from EASK's, that they weren't honoring for 4 years anyway, down to a lower block hour that's even lower than the block hours associated with the EASK's they aren't honoring in the first place. In the future they can add significantly more capacity/marketshare than we do and still be "metal neutral".

In the middle, we completely missed the opportunity to make SEA a hub to protect us from future Alaska code share abuse. Doing this now would have been a zero cost item.

On the bottom, more large RJ's breathes more life into DCI with more economical aircraft while at the same time helping them transfer RJ capacity to larger RJ's that alleviates their staffing crisis, all while enabling them to wield a far more effective whipsaw against our smaller jets. All in exchange for buying airplanes that we own the exclusive rights to anyway, that are probably coming anyway, and that are probably slated to be lower paying replacement aircraft in the first place. If even some of them are growth, we would be getting them anyway because they can't fly the growth lift with the 2% extra DCI capacity in the form of 50 seaters that they can't staff anyway.

Oh and the MEC Chairman can single handedly allow the company to create unlimited foreign alter egos and call them Delta with the Delta paint job etc.

And 737's that are probably coming anyway and even if not, they are replacement jets as well.

So, yeah, there's all that.