Hockey44,

Great question: "Why are there holes in our contract?"

Again, you need to consider why these holes exist in our contract. They are not accidental. Our scope language was REMOVED on purpose.

Lee Moak used to put on a presentation explaining how outsourcing improved profitability which made for better Delta pilot contracts. Outsourcing is more profitable if you have more vendors competing and driving the price down. Contractual provisions were REMOVED to increase cost competition among DCI carriers and to facilitate the sale of Delta's subsidiaries (ASA, Comair, Compass, Mesaba, etc)

So now our MEC says ***!? The time to have asked was back when our administration made these changes to beat up on and sell our DCI carriers. Many of us wrote and told them the risks and where these plans would fail. Some of us asked for resolutions to study these changes & got them passed. But at the end of the day politics overwhelmed objective argument.

If anyone is pleased Comair got mostly destroyed try to really enjoy that feeling of vindication. The cost was an enormous hole in our scope that operators can run a holding company through.