Lately, the stuff I see from ALPA National is focused on arm twisting in DC over the Open Skies talks, as it should be, in my mind. We (at APC) are looking inside, at each other, when the long term threat to all of us (in the USA) is coming from outside, across the ocean.
Think Cruise Ship Industry. Now where do you want ALPA to focus our money? On beating each other up, or saving our industry from foreign entry? Because that's where this industry is going, long term. Who else is going to stop the DC Politicians from selling us out? SWAPA? APA?
Read this, and then check out the other links, you will see the threats from outside the USA are real:
http://pilotpartisan.com/2013/06/18/...egin-july-8th/
Small excerpt:
The EU has pushed for inclusion of air traffic rights as they constantly seek to open up our domestic market to cabotage operations and increase the level of allowable foreign ownership and control of U.S. airlines. Such changes to our laws are not good for pilots or our carriers.
Just ask the Quatas guys how that Emirates Code Share is working out for them...