Originally Posted by Mesabah

It's not the union leaders, it's the conflict of interest in ALPA rearing its ugly head. What should have happened is the 9E MEC should have sued the Colgan group, and tied the SLI up in court for years over the 2007 scope violation. If that had happened, the Colgan pilots would be choosing between a staple job or nothing. That did not happen because of the ALPA merger policy.

Right now ALPA is fighting the Emirates thing to protect Delta pilots, but I'm sure if ALPA could represent the Emirates pilots, that fight would disappear so fast your head would spin. Just wait till ALPA gets the ability to represent foreign nationals with the ab-intio and cabotage programs. We pilots will be lucky to get jobs at McDonald's after that happens. Let's just hope they pay $15 an hour by then.