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I'm not opposed to the DPA. I'm not opposed to DALPA. But I am opposed to ALPA National. I'd rather be independent.
Let me guess, AMR wants DOH?
Whoa. I kept hearing "it cartwheeled" and thought how would it have kept its wings if it cartwheeled. But that's sort of a flat cartwheel. I wonder what airliner (747 maybe) was taxing out?
Agreed about ALPA national. Look at the doozies of lawyers we get at DALPA from national.
AMR will likely want relative- US's pilot population is crazy old, while AMR has an overall cross section and retirement to 50% nearly identical to ours. US's retirement to 50% is around 2019... AMR's is ~2024 like us.
The 777 in its final position had rotated all the way around and then some, and definitely showed a wing in that video. Amazing the wings stayed attached. Boeing builds a hoss of an airplane!
The airliner taxiing out was UAL885 (a 744) to KIX. They subsequently cancelled.