Originally Posted by Lighteningspeed

Everything Bored told you is correct. There is a parent Holding Corporation that owns Delta Airlines. In turn, DAL owns NWA, and by that ownership now owns Mesaba and Compass in addition to Comair which DAL owned before the merger.

This is why RA has to answer to the Board of Directors of DAL who are also members of the elite that runs the parent Holding Corporation.