My version, or Sailings? My version comes straight from the paper trail which was carefully preserved and from attending joint meetings with MEC Chairs Arnold & Lawson. Arnolds predecessor Cooksey is the same as named in the subsequent litigation.

For all the Delta communications which allege "the Comair pilots demanded Date of Hire" there is not one single scrap of paper, nor anyone's notes, which point to any such statement ever having been made.

Another way to figure this out is to ask "what makes sense?" When it was ALPA policy to decide IF a merger was to take place before submitting HOW the merger was to be implemented, why is it such a stretch to believe pilots would follow those procedures sequentially, like a checklist?

The DCI guys took the high road and got slaughtered at the BOD meeting.