Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
This whole thing is so underwhelming isn't it?
It's like a pilot who's run an aircraft off the end of the runway twice telling you how to fly your plane. It makes no sense to say these are the best lawyers in the business when they wrote our section 1, a colossal jewel of what not to do, and then don't even bother to enforce it anyways.
Who in the hell does ALPA have as lawyers?!?!?
If they don't try or win this redefine the definition of air carrier so as to beat back RAH then I sure as hell hope nobody has the gall to tell us to do anything but demand we go to court and have them fired.
BTW, my counter to the American Eagle/AMR thing would be to say AE was never Delta Connection carrier other than to serve as a codeshare in the same vein as Hawaiian. According to the 10K AE is a revenue proration agreement and DCI's are capacity purchase agreements, enough for me to say they have always operated different then RAH.
Heyas FtB,
The union has absolutely no stomach of ANY sort of watchdogging of the ALPA lawyers, just like they don't want anyone watching the FPL issue.
A resolution to bring in independent counsel to watchdog scope issues failed miserably at the DTW LEC meeting. As it was explained to me, no one would touch it, even after it was admitted (albiet somewhat indirectly) that mistakes were made.
The FPL sideshow garnered far more interest, which, IMHO, is far down the priority list. If we can't count on our "watchdog, flat earther, lunatic fringe" council, then I suspect that we're pretty much boned. What a leadership fail.
Admitting that mistakes were made in the past is a first step, but it seems that we're locked into making the same mistakes.
For every rep that is allowed to remain in their position, who supports the current direction, makes us, as individuals, directly responsible. So everyone look in the mirror and say "shame on me".
Nu