Reviewed the day 1 SLI hearing transcripts - nothing very exciting. A quick summary follows:

Openers
DAL - We think we should use relative seniority.
NW - We think we should use DOH.

Senior Arbitrator - You guys are better off working this out yourselves.

Then the rest of the day was a DAL witness with no cross examination. He made a pretty solid case for NW's plans to shrink the airline and replace flying with Mesaba and DAL's growing mainline. Also made a case that the DC-9's and the 747-200's will be gone very quickly. Like I said no cross examination so it was pretty 1 sided and very boring.

Scoop