Originally Posted by satpak77

Heres the dealio

1. Our govt is broke. They apparently can't (or have difficulty) funding the FFDO program right now. "National security is at stake" maybe so, but the same US Govt is parking battleships and grounding FIGHTER SQUADRONS. So.....

2. The program in my opinion is important and valid

3. See Point-1.

4. Maybe someone can come up with a tax write off for this, if the pilots fund everything themselves. Maybe ALPA can exit the loosing argument for more funds and approach this from a different angle such as tax write offs

5. See Point-1