i also hope not. i doubt that would be the case. not the way they like to do business in st. george. as far as i can tell by all the info you and others have posted, the biggest reason skywest inc. wants to negotiate that stuff out is so there doesn't have to be a merging of all the groups, which would create far more problems than it would solve, from a smoothly-running-company standpoint. maybe there are other clauses they would seek to change? i obviously don't know. you have mentioned what seems to be the biggest one.