Looks like December 8th is the big day...glad they didn't pick the 7th.

Fellow Northwest Pilots,
Today a written request from the seniority arbitration panel was accepted by the parties.
The net effect to the pilots is that the arbitration panel will announce the seniority award
and opinion on the same day, December 8, 2008.
The original timeline called for an award to be published on November 20, 2008 and the
opinion on December 20, 2008. The last arbitration hearing day is scheduled for
November 17, 2008. This would give the arbitrators only 3 days to confer and reach a
decision in order to meet the November 20 deadline.
At the arbitrators' request, the date for the award and opinion was combined on December
8, 2008. This adjustment in the timeline was accepted by both Northwest and Delta
ALPA and Delta giving the arbitrators the additional time they requested to produce a fair
and equitable seniority award.