it is official. what i said at the beginning of the post is directly from the conference call we had last night. infact our mec chair read us the letter he received from the arbitrator on the conference call so it wasn't him paraphrasing or anything like that. like many people have said on here, the merger wont be quick, but it will happen. the company has now lost the chance to move our flying to colgan and then whipsaw us. since they bought them they will now have to merge them with us. not much more they can do. i think they next round of negotiations in the coming week will be pretty interesting.