Originally Posted by scambo1

If DAL gets married up with JAL, I'd expect a rapid merger/sale of United's asia op to either CAL or AA and then a CAL / AA merger. Yeah, yeah I hear you all saying no way.

While I cannot see far enough around that corner to tell whether it would be good or bad in the law of unintended consequences dept. I'd guess it would certainly be a consequence.

At the end of the "chess game" Haneda access is the critical treaty permission. Whether or not we get a piece of that action tells you if our gov't negotiators are idiots or not.

DALPA in this business transaction is definitely not in a position to dictate, because AF/KLM are a financing stream. However, DALPA should be able to get some bennies as a result - lots of cheap/free contract improvements plus some stock (not held back)

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Scambo