Originally Posted by sailingfun

A single organization representing all pilots is illegal under the RLA act. That is why ALPA is a association. Each airline under ALPA functions as a independent union. It is also illegal under the RLA to try and work under one set of wage and work rules. Plumbers can do it but pilots can not. All pilots should read and understand the RLA. A attempt was made a few years ago to remove Fedex from the RLA because they don't belong there. This spooked Fred Smith so bad that he threatened to cancel every single Boeing order and buy all Airbus. He values the RLA so highly that he actually has a clause written into every Boeing purchase that the contract is void if the RLA is changed or Fedex removed from its protection. Boeing and the Senators from the states Boeing does business quickly killed the bill to pull Fedex from the RLA.