I was fairly disgusted by that also. The DALPA committee has uncovered several "errors" made by the NALPA merger committee throughout these proceedings, all of which suspiciously benefits NWA pilots. Errors such as counting retired pilots as active when it benefits NWA pilots, active pilots as retired when it benefits NWA pilots, forgetting that they were told there would be NWA furloughs, bogus information such as claiming crews for 94 DC-9s when counting captain jobs when there are far fewer than that, putting up route maps which show routes that NWA no longer flies, producing flight plans as evidence for flights they don't do with uncharacteristic cargo and passenger loads, testifying to the range on the A320 with fuel tank configurations that are not in the NWA fleet, under counting the average number of pay hours a month Delta pilots receive in order to skew compensation numbers. Why can't they be accurate? It's not that difficult to count airframes and know who is and who isn't on your list, produce actual route maps, actual flight plans and actual data for your aircraft based on how they are actually configured. A simple thing like knowing the status of who is and who isn't on your list isn't that hard, you don't need it to be published by the company, certainly NALPA knows who is and who isn't paying dues.

I understand trying to get the best deal for your guys, it's different than trying to get a fair deal for all, but I see a disturbing trend which suggests an effort to use less than accurate information in order to gain advantage in arbitration and therefore benefit on the back of another pilot. This is a zero sum gain, any NWA pilot who benefits from bogus information presented by the NWA merger committee does so at the expense of another pilot. That's just not right.