I'm going to take a risk and not ignore this, assuming you're going to discuss instead of lecture.

As far as I can tell, any under-cutting is self inflicted. They only exist inside our Scope exceptions. They can't be blamed, with some exceptions, the most glaring of which was the RJDC. I don't really believe that the RJDC was not tacitly supported by the respective MEC's. Another exception has been described fairly convincingly by Bar.

With all that being said, you can't show me that the dues money has been used to improve their situation at our expense, except than to provide basic services. My dues money might be partly subsidizing an RJ guy's access to insurance or aeromedical services? I'm OK with it. On the flip side, we lobby as one group, and for the most part, they don't get anything we don't actually give up first. They mostly sit here, waiting for an opportunity to escape to greener pastures, and usually don't make a convincing play for our positions. I'm actually sort of surprised they're happy with the current arrangement, because I really wonder if it favors them at all.

I realize this is heresy for most pilots, and really violates the dogmas of the DPA, and I'm going to burn in hell for it, but... If you take a dispassionate look at it, we're getting trounced by management, while keeping the RJ guys pretty much in purgatory below us. I've often wondered why we don't have a union for the majors, and one for the regionals. I like the idea a lot, and I'm sure CAPA would like it, but somehow no one is doing that. Why?

It's easy to envision a world where a RAPLA would be suing a MALPA everywhere, every day, and trying to abolish our exclusive contracts on the legislative front.

Just my own, unorthodox, Machiavellian musings, of course.