It's always fun to speculate, but...I worked for Comair for 11 years during the Delta buyout of ASA and Comair and the pilot strike and the truth of the matter is Delta management is going to do whatever floats their boat. All the Comair guys can attest to the "Do it now and grieve it later" comments from management every time you turn around. You don't have to look any farther than the TWA pilots and the USAir pilots to see how list mergers go and those were between two mainline carriers. Why should we think any different that a merger of lists between mainline and the regional networks would ever be advantageous for the regional guys or for that matter that Delta or the union gives a crap about making a regional/regional merger fair?