Has anyone considered that this might have something to do with the chair of the House Transportation Cmte (Oberstar), from Minnesota (NWA), asking the DOJ to halt the merger...news which was released Monday around 10AM? And then, within 24 hours, you have an announcement that Delta is pulling 9Es contract?

Maybe these things are completely unrelated, but the timing makes me wonder.

And for those of you who think this has something to do with contract negotiations, I would think mgmt would use this as a way to stall even longer...I can see the Seal memo now: "These are hard times and we all have to make sacrifices, our pilots are no exception...yada yada yada."