That's my take as well, though I differ from you in that I think it will be slotting by using 3 lists, east , west, and APA. Just a feeling from reading all the court stuff and the lack of any judge to date wanting to get too involved in "ordering" the unions to use a specific list. I think at this point anybody dreaming of the NIC being used as the USAirways list going into this process is going to be disappointed, just as the ones dreaming of a USAirways DOH list will be. My bar stool prediction is the courts are going to treat the awa/usair pilot group merger as an incomplete merger that after 8 years is much easier to consider a failed process than try to wade thru all the baggage and crap that goes with it. I think the MOU will be viewed as the way out, it puts to rest both the DOH and the NIC question and gives all groups a chance to come together as each list currently is. No matter how you look at it neither list looks anything like it did back in 2005. I don't think the courts are even going to try to sort out crap that happened almost a decade ago at this point. Time will tell.