So put the Malone letter, SLI Rep letter , CVG FO rep's letters together and you start to get a little better picture:

• E190 deposits already made, you don't have to allow more CR9s to get them.
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• The positive letters from Reps about the TA, in the view of the CVG FO rep, don't match the actual TA language.
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• This TA is really the Delta Connection Emancipation Proclamation from the MEC. No more 900sm restriction on 85% of the flights, free to do hub-to-hub and point-to-point thus no longer required to feed mainline, transferring flying to more profitable 76-seaters that are 51% larger and fly 10% faster to make up for a 2% seat count reduction.
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• JV protection now uses block hour and drops it to a 50% baseline, a metric the company would have been in compliance with the last 4 years whereas with EASKs they were out of compliance.
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• JV language will allow Delta to down gauge our aircraft while JV partners up gauge.
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• Mike Donatelli gets to decide whether we slap Delta livery, logos, etc on a foreign carrier.
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• Pay is not 8633 and 15% over the life of the contact but really 8.26% over three years given inflation eats up the remaining 3%.
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• Removing LCA trips from FOs removes 135 trips the FOs would have been able to bid on when you consider 45 LCA x 4 trips per month = 180 trips x 85% = 135 trips gone.