Originally Posted by
Mesabah
The issue is that if we vote no, and Delta wins arbitration, the only way for the company to get access to those 35 jets is to start a new regional.
As I understand it, if we vote no, there is no arbitration. DALPA is only going to try to make this an issue if it's an actual issue. It's a smart move on their part - if they arbitrate now and they lose, then Delta knows that if we say no, they can still get their 35 RJs back just by starting a new regional. But if they wait and we say no, then Delta has to consider that they'd go to all the trouble of starting up a new regional only to have DALPA then challenge it on the same grounds of "we signed an agreement with Compass, and this new regional isn't Compass", have DALPA win, and then they've wasted all that time and money.