The way Anderson answered the question about Pinnacle being "cut off" gives me the feeling that he's not completely convinced about letting Pinnacle go. It felt like Delta is just trying to put pressure on Pinnacle to keep their act together, and don't let pinnacle even think about asking for more airplanes at least for now. I also have the theory that with this "thread" to cancell our contract, what Delta really want is to keep the 900 already on property and negotiate the delay of the rest of the 900, having more control on the domestic cutbacks where they've been focusing on. Now, if Pinnacle gets stuck with only 9 900s we won't be able to sustain that operation for too long.

Is just a theory, nobody knows for sure, but I think Delta is up to something and a complete contract cancellation may not be just it.