I was using the previous poster's 1 Flight ~ 1% in order to show that even by his/her assumption the lose of 5 flights world wide, 1 of them being trans-Atlantic still puts Delta in compliance.

The bottom line is we can go from roughly 687,000 block hours to 650,000.

This is a loss of 37,000 block hours, regardless of which theatre they come from. The only metric is AF/KLM compliance they could go down to 1 trans-Atlantic international flight as long as it is matched by 1 AF/KLM flight and there is no global block hour floor.

A much better way to do this is to require a minimum of 95% of the previous years block hours and a ratio of all Delta international flying to all of the code share flying.

Delta pilots will fly 50% of all global international EASKs, if not in compliance then no less than 95% of the previous years global block hours. In any year where EASKs flown by codeshare partners exceeds those flown by Delta the number of excess EASKs will be multiplied by X dollars and distributed to the pilots.