Despite today’s filing, the collective bargaining agreement between ALPA and NWA remains in full effect. We expect NWA to honor the spirit of the agreements it made with pilots who have invested so much in their company.

We 're pleased to have reached a tentative agreement so we may be able to pay additional severance benefits to our former employees.

There was a rush to get the agreement in place.

It's a corporate shell game of transferring assets and franchise value to a new company.

Every time (Northwest negotiators) get at the table and they think they have an advantage, they want to gut the contract.

That is not where we need to be, ... We're looking at other ways to satisfy their financial concerns without destroying our contract. ... We would like to get a deal but we will we will not do a bad deal in the interest of timeliness. It has to satisfy the concerns of our members.