Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

No

They have the numbers to initiate a recall. They have not done so.

The appeal of the DPA is that they will clean house on the Admin. But, will they? The DPA's head spokesman will tell you that he would like to retain much of the experience and talent that ALPA's Admin currently has and welcomes them to serve in DPA. We don't know specifically who he his thinking of and what changes would happen in the next couple of years, or whether they would serve.

To have good talent, you generally have to pay them well. At least as much as they could make doing something else that was easier and takes less time from their families. Much of the DPA's rallying cry is that pay for service will be cut.

I've been offered less money and even slightly more money to come and work full time in an office. Tried it for several weeks and about went nuts. It is more difficult that you would think to give up flying (if you love flying).

Bottom line, I see nothing which indicates the DPA would be anything but worse than ALPA. Much better to fix what needs fixing.

Drew Massey's comments explain a lot about the decision making that seems more like Johnson or Cheney than Jeffersonian. With the the proposed changes at the LEC level, it reminds me of expanding the Pentagon to win a war in Southeast Asia.