" The 80% WILL be gone. Delta has no other choice.
See the above. Delta is holding a gun to ASA's head right now and saying "let's negotiate".
I really don't think that skywest/ASA will cave on this. Why would they, all the other contracts delta has tried to cancel (mesa/pinnacle) haven't worked out the way Delta management had hoped. Why would they give to this? xj gets the growth that they could have given to us per the contract!