Fact: The Delta pilots had a merger committee running and funded for over a year.

Rumor: The NWA pilots were unprepared and were fighting amongst themselves with hard feelings about mergers from the previous attempts at integrating their own list.

Also understand the DAL negotiating team went home.

- report is only rumor -

There are numerous reports that the "rumors" of NWA pilots wanting to put several thousand DAL pilots at the bottom and 400 or 500 NWA pilots at the top were in fact accurate reports, as were the rumors of the concept of ratios that would leave everyone in their same relative position. Again, rumors. But these rumors fit with reputation and known facts.

FACT: Delta revsed their 2008 hiring plan upwards by at least 25% & is talking about the success of their stand alone plan. Don't know if there is a correlation.


IMHO the NWA pilots will kill this deal and the Delta pilots will be happy about it.