If you think the arbitraitors are going to award Relative Seniority b/c you 2k more pilots than we do I would say you're wrong. Relative Seniority, the Dal list, has many of losing 1700 numbers. In ten years nwa/dal relative seniority will be close to the same to date of hire. So, effectively it will take ten years to get back to where I am today. Go ahead and try and justify that all you want but that would be an unbelievable windfall for DAL. So, don't go around saying you don't want to bid our airplanes if you're against fences. If Dal doesn't move from its position it will go to arbitraition. In the spring your premise was either take our proposal or the whole deal is off. Now, the deal is on no matter what. No more walking away b/c you didn't get your way. Our proposal, whether you like it or not, is a low cost proposal as it will not cause the displacement of one Dal pilot. So, don't think for a moment that the arbitraitiors won't take that into account.

The middle is the answer. A windfall for either side isn't. I realize I went to public schools so this seems so elemental and beyond me why others don't get it. Do you really want to spend the next decades working in an environment, from the training deptartment to line flying, where both sides are resentful and going after each other?