US Airways East vs West isn't anywhere close to us. You can't even compare the two. It's two completely different mergers.

I understand that the DOJ gave approval but DOJ approval and date of corporate closure are 2 different things. Since DCC is what determines our equity, I am simply trying to find out if all that happened today was DOJ approval or if today was in fact DOJ approval AND date of corporate closure. What I really want to know is if we got locked in at todays stock price of 7.99 a share as far as the equity is concerned.

Yes, the DCC was today.......

DCC is today.

I think you are confused about the equity. We are not "locked in" to today's price.
The company will issue pilot shares equal to 5.88% of the outstanding equity capitalization of the new corporation. (3.5% to pre-merger DAL pilots and 2.38% to pre-merger NWA pilots)
ALPA will take possession of those shares. They plan to have an investment banker sell the shares sometime in the near future and distribute the cash as "employer contributions" to our qualified DC retirement accounts.
The price we get will be whatever the market price is when the banker sells the shares. Hopefully it will go up over the next few days or weeks.

Ok I mistakenly thought that the equity was based on the stock price on the date of corporate closure. So there is some hope the value increasing.

Yes.
Let's all hope ALPA's banker times the sale to maximize the value.
They did a great job with the bankruptcy equity. (with the help of USAir).

Maybe we need to convince USAir to try another hostile takeover.

At today's price, the average pilot will see around $32k.

Please don't it's hard enough for me to get home since I'm a piedmont guy (dash) the east guys don't like us since we support the west.