Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
We face a tidal wave of competition. We need the strongest wall we can build.
We need to fight this latest threat to be sure, but we have no idea whatsoever if ALPA will really fight. ALPA used to go to war against alter ego airlines, now ALPA promotes them. Alter egos and outsourcing in general have been a far greater catastrophe for the
piloting profession than foreign carrier competition ever thought about being. Today ALPA wants to go to war over foreign competition...just like they used to with alter egos. What will ALPA's position be tomorrow?
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Or let me put it this way; I (and many of our new hires) could be Captain on an airplane larger than yours to better overnights if by next spring if I were willing to give up and work for a Middle Eastern carrier. No disrespect at all, but you are not qualified (they discriminate based on age and I'm nearly too old).
Again, this is reality today. We may never see some of these younger pilots return their talents to US airlines. ALPA has no plan whatsoever to change that other than pleading for PAC dollars.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
USAPA is doing nothing to help. Absolutely nothing.
USAPA has never been or pretended to be a real union. Only a vehicle to erect a fence around an arbitrated SLI. They've been successful at that thus far. USAPA is a straw man when used to compare ALPA or DPA.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Delta is your gig. Delta is all of our jobs. To me the decision is clear.
Again, you're going under the assumption that ALPA is really against foreign airline competition. I don't think you can do that.
Carl