We are prepared to operate the airline with our new maintenance structure indefinitely.

You can't operate a global airline like that,

underway and proceeding smoothly.

a menu of ways those savings can be achieved.

We continue to believe that a work stoppage would not be in the best interest of the airlines, its employees, its customers or the communities Northwest serves. If ALPA would attempt to strike Northwest Airlines, the company would seek an immediate injunction.

Northwest filed the appropriate notice as soon as we received notice of the stock transaction.