Originally Posted by Night Hawk 6

ALPA has never been a union, it is an association, look at the name, words have meanings. When ALPA was created, and most of you have no idea when that occurred, the design of the organization fit the times and the personalities involved. Today ALPA operates just as it has for over 8 decades despite the many changes in the industry, federal law and technology. To put it bluntly, ALPA is obsolete. If there was a professional organization representing all commercial airline pilot equally threads like this one would not exist. Yet we have pilots that still cling to the mistaken ides that some how if we just keep dong what we have been doing that everything will be alright. Well if you consider working for less than 50 percent of what your predecessors worked for, work more with fewer days off and not have a retirement as your predecessors, then I guess you are happy with what ALPA has done for the airline pilot profession for the last thirty years.