Originally Posted by
eaglefly
Unfortunately you will. If you refuse, ALPA has the ability to have you terminated.
... and the pilots have the ability to terminate their representation by ALPA.
ALPA paid $44 million to the United retirees last year. This year's "oops" has the potential to result in replacement of career earnings for more than a thousand effected TWA pilots, so yes it could be a couple million per pilot. Back of the napkin math reveals a potential award that does in fact have a big B in it. ALPA will be unable to sustain that.
But surely there will be appeals ... .
If ALPA pushes an assessment, they will probably lose some major carriers quite rapidly.
This sucks. T-WAY is not even ALPA any more.