CAP, you do not understand where the "goodies" came from? How about Lee Moak stating way before Prater and NWA jumped on board that any merger would include the pilots and provide equity and compensation for cooperation. The outline of this new way of doing mergers was devised by DALPA. That is a fact, so in essence, this deal would have already been crammed down our collective throats without any input if DALPA had not been out in front of this issue before it arose.

Do you really believe that if CAL, UAL or AA came and asked NWA to do a deal that there would have been "goodies" for NWA pilots? VERY NAIVE!!!!!!

Why do you suppose the deal is/was considered dead by DAL? It is because DALPA does not see the value of destroying our airline over a SLI that is detrimental to the pilots at DAL. RA agreed and walked away. Steenland came back along with NWALPA asking that the deal be further considered. Knowing how NWA views its employees, I doubt it will be as good as it would have been.

This new deal is going to be tweaked, I doubt it will be the DAL side that is in for a rude awakening. DAL is on the leading edge of the Open Skies movement and will not destroy the company because some ****ed off employees at NWA who work under different colored books want a windfall deal.

And you wonder why DAL pilots are against this merger? DAL has had its share of mergers too. We still have one contract, one book and a workforce that at least enjoys the people they work with.