The really expensive ones that come to mind are Duke/Spellacy, the UAL notes case and now TWA. ALPA had to sell its HQ building to pay off Spellacy. The UAL notes case cost mega-millions even after our "off-shore insurance" paid out and TWA ...... yea yea I know. It ain't over. No money yet. yada yada. I smell a settlement coming.

The one that really ticks me off is the settlement with the RJDC. Those pinheads didn't deserve a dime and they certainly didn't deserve a pre-signing chop on Section 1 of our contract.

My point is that ALPA National is a piggy bank for Cohen, Weiss and Simon and all their spin-offs and former partners turned consultants. Look at that DOL payee report. Its insane how much we pay those people every month. And that's on top of our in-house lawyers.

And after all that, they can't even write an enforcable scope clause.

The machine in Herndon costs way too much. It is a typical Washington bureaucracy run amok and it needs to be brought under control.

Just my opinion.