Ftrooppilot,

The point is that DAL cannot just get rid of the Compass airplanes that easily. Sure they could sell them with no penalties (unlike the NWA contract), but the flow has to remain intact. Cancel the flow, whether still owned or not, reduces the number of 76 seat jets allowed by 35 (i.e., they can't fill in the gaps with other DCI carriers). Option two would be to reconfigure 35 76 seaters of their choice back to 70 seats, otherwise they cannot be operated as Delta Connection.

I believe that Airways is capped or even above for large RJs; AA, CAL, & UA don't allow the 175 at the feeders. Unless they sell them over seas they can't be used in the US. Maybe I'm wrong and RAH will turn them into more cookie monsters up in MKE.

440 or so pilots gets you to 09/01/2001 post SOC; 10% of the list gets you back to around mid 2001 for DAL and early 2000 for NWA.

A. Definitions.
1. “Participating Feeder Carrier” means a Domestic Air Carrier that is a Feeder Carrier (both as defined in Section 1 B.7.a. and Section 1 B.7.c.(1) of the Agreement) that has contracted with the Company to operate Qualifying Aircraft.
a. “Category 1 Participating Feeder Carrier” means a Participating Feeder Carrier that is an Affiliate of the Company.
b. “Category 2 Participating Feeder Carrier” means a Participating Feeder Carrier that is not an Affiliate of the Company and that operates Qualifying Aircraft that are owned, financed, leased, or sub-leased by the Company (not including the AVRO85 replacements at Mesaba Airlines).
c. “Category 3 Participating Feeder Carrier” means a Participating Feeder Carrier that is not an Affiliate of the Company and that operates Qualifying Aircraft that are not owned, financed, leased or sub-leased by the Company.

Category 1: Compass, Comair, and Mesaba
Category 2: ASA, Pinnacle, does Skywest own the 900s?
Category 3: RAH & Freedom

If you're DCI, you're one of the three categories, always.