Not quite. They chose to allow those that "had a reasonable expectation" to be grandfathered. That is the exact wording used. They decided that would consist of those that could go within the next year (sort of) 9 per month X 12 months = 108 pilots. They put a hook on it though because instead of it being the next 108 that chose to go they looked 108 names down the list and said these are the ones grandfathered wheather all 108 take it or only 50 do, that is it. We will not be flowing all 108. There ARE a lot of us that wanted to go but are left out in the cold. In fact the further you went down the seniority list the more yes bids there were. Better than nothing, I suppose but still a slap in the face to a lot of us. Really doesn't motivate us to go out of the way for our, er I mean DELTA'S passengers.

We did have a few people turn down the flow to NWA that after the merger were arguing to start the flow over from the top for Delta. They didn't get the choice to go to Delta as the flow was a one and done deal. Once someone junior flowed you were locked out. If nobody junior had gone you could still change your bid one way or the other. That did not change with the merger. And the cutoff point at the merger was about 125 on the list at that time.