It's amazing just how far down an organization can fall. Back in the days when the "Flying the Line" series of books was published by ALPA chronicling the fight of airline pilots to gain and maintain respectability and fair compensation as well as the strategies used, ALPA stood for something........or at the very least gave that impression.

Now, after Moaks Letter..............actually his REVELATION, it's clear the entire regional pilot industry MUST seperate itself from this hopelessly irrelevent and now pointless entity. It's clear that not only has ALPA become simply the flip side of the same coin as the traditional pilots adversary, their impending financial state is headed for disaster and ultimately, it will be their pilots that will fott the bill. They've been sued multiple times for DFR faliure and have previously settled out of court under a veil of secrecy that other corporations use, they've disregarded the very principles they claim to espouse when dealing with their own labor and now soon could be bankrupted by the latest in their series of FALIURE to represent their pilots (TWA).

Given all that, it seems clear that ALPA has simply become a entity solely concerned with circling their financial wagons and that is likely a major reason why they have little interest in expending financial resources for regional pilots. Before Moak's letter to the PSA pilots, the same basic message of capitulation was communicated to the Eagle pilots. If you are a regional and ALPA, you really are represented by a ghost.

An expensive ghost, but a ghost.