wow...hard to believe this is the last weekend to enjoy the flight benefits we once had under NWA. Beginning next week, it'll be a different ball game.

I had the benefit of flying upperdeck of a 747 recently and sat there and thought "only 1 time per year will I be able to do this internationnaly from this point on..and IF seats are available in WBC at that particular time I fly"..
I know this has been beaten already but it's just really sad the way Delta is treating Pinnacle - we're THE LOWEST paid of all regionals and we have to PAY MORE for our parents to fly (Zed High), we lose our buddy passes, we're being limited on transoceanic passes (a whopping "3" per YEAR) and, depending on seniority now, we will be boarding behind a Compass employee's parent on our own aircraft.

Geesh, remember when US Airways attempted for a hostile takeover of DL for $10B and the Delta employees everywhere wore buttons, ribbons and lanyards--"Keep Delta MY Delta"? I wish now Northwest would have "kept Northwest THEIR Northwest" ..wonder how different things would be? Even though Pinnacle has made some bone-headed decisions and was spun-off by mainline NWA, at least they considered us part of their family, whereas DL is showing how they really feel about 9E.

Did Uncle Phil really have the option of having a better flight benefit program for Pinnacle and turn it down 'coz of costs????

Yeah I know it's better than nothing but absolutely nothing compared to what we had.