Originally Posted by Happyflyer

Middle ground is an arbitrator stating that LOA9 is not fulfilled with Endeavor, but that it isn’t dead either.

He outlines the hoops Delta has to jump thorough like buying the Compass certificate. If he says no to what Delta did, but outlines a more expensive path for Delta to retain LOA 9 then you’d have negotiating capital. The principle of a scope sale would be gone, and the price to settle would be a value of the “hoops” Delta would have to jump through to revive LOA 9.