[Kristie]

I dunno really.. it might be a cave by both sides, esp since mgmt wasn't going to budge - however, maybe mgmt noticed that their side of things with the BK judge wasn't going good and the only way to make ends meet was to slide the paycut down and get it taken care of BEFORE ALPA went in front of the BK judge? maybe mgmt already knew that ALPA might actually pull ahead of the fight...

it's really hard to say since none of us are in on those hearings - all we hear is what we hear via media and as far as i could tell, it seemed that the judge was noticing the union busting tactics and getting on the CFO's case about what the financial picture REALLY is?? last i heard, he failed to produce documents to prove that they even needed $300 mil from the pilots. that AND she wanted to see the list of things that had no monetary value that were added to the contract - she wasn't too pleased about those items since they're completely unrelated to the money needed to turn DAL around. so maybe it was mgmt's "omg, we've got to get a concensus for more than 9% before ALPA goes in front of the judge or we won't get our bonuses with the extra $$ for *saving* the company".. who knows...

I know, I think we too were hoping DAL pilots would be able to bring the profession back up with a strike and i bet that mgmt knew it would happen if they kept continuing with the section 1113 hearings.

problem now is that we can't make a stand - for the DAL pilots and for the entire profession...the union has taken that opportunity away (for now) and that's really what's pissed everyone off...

who knows, had the union continued the fight (instead of going into flight mode) and gone in front of the BK judge - who knows where we'd be at right now!!