The chief executive officers of Delta, Air France and KLM met Monday with Air Line Pilots Association leaders from their airlines to sign a six-way Joint Venture Protocol. The protocol agreement recognizes that a cooperative and productive relationship is essential to the success of the Joint Venture Agreement.

Good news for us...

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I don't have a dog in this fight (i.e. I don't have any connection with ALPA Watch). But I am curious as to the meaning of your comment. I took a look at their web site and didn't see anything wrong with it. In fact, I rather liked their slogan: "Delta Pilots working together to regain our fair compensation, our quality of life, our future, and our dignity." Sounds a lot better to me than our current DALPA mission statement.

Agreed 100%!

And this should be step one in binding the joint venture to successorship language as well as scope limitations if they decide to every be bigger than just a Joint Venture(AKA an airline with its members being contract carriers)

I like the direction that ALPA and the airlines are going.

UGH. Let's hope that NEVER happens. I left the regionals to AVOID that. :(

You give me too much credit, I was actually just jumping on the opportunity to rip the NYT and it had nothing to do with alpawatch. :D

With that said, given your post, I don't mind either to have a 3rd party willing to keep an eye on dalpa and alpa on behalf of its members. But this is actually the first I've seen of alpawatch so I'll hold back my oppinion til I get a better look at it.

BTW, Dear Maytag Repairman in DAL 88 Driver's avatar pic, when you coming to fix my brand spanking new Maytag fridge that hasn't worked since the day it was delivered two weeks ago!?!? :mad:

Delta Air Lines Inc. will expand its international service out of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

The Atlanta-based carrier (NYSE: DAL) will add new nonstop service between Minneapolis-St. Paul and Mexico City International Airport, pending foreign government approval.

It also will boost the frequency of its nonstop flight between Minneapolis-St. Paul and Paris-Charles De Gaulle Airport from seasonal to year-round service. And Delta's nonstop service between Minneapolis-St. Paul and London-Heathrow will grow from from five days each week to daily in winter 2010.

Read more: Delta gives Minn. an international boost - Atlanta Business Chronicle

LOL.:) Well, given that I seem to have plenty of time on my hands these days... I could come over just about any time. One word of caution, though... I'm infinitely better at flying airplanes than I am at fixing refrigerators! :eek: