Not quite right, Carl. Unless you can get a deal with your management using the leverage that you have, it's only with the closing of the corporate deal (merger transaction) and when we have a joint contract. My bet is that DAL pushes for contract first, then SLI, to avoid a replay of what's going on at LCC. Also, the seniority list has no impact on either DAL or NWA pilots until a joint contract is implemented and the carrier has a single operating certificate. Prior to that time the operations are independent, and there's no commingling of pilot crews.

Richard Anderson and Ed Bastian stood in front of 2000 Delta employees Tuesday and said their goal was a joint contract for the pilots prior to the corporate deal closing. With a joint contract and completed SLI, they can maximize the revenue and minimize the costs associated with the pilot portions of this merger. Without them, they don't get some of the cost savings and leave some of the revenue on the table. Again, look at LCC.

Each day that there's delay in completing the deal (both corporate and pilot) there'll be less money on the table for us to fight over. Stephens may think he's doing some great positioning on youtube, but he's arguing about missing pushback with a gate agent. The plane has departed.