Originally Posted by TheManager

Lobbying will never work for ALPA when their political opponents are larger and funded to the hilt. Even if ALPA had 100% participation for the PAC, they still would be woefully underfunded.

That said, same goes for CAPA and DPA.

Only way ALPA would get noticed and leverage is an SOS. What do you save that for, cabotage, foreign ownership, baseball style arbitration, a pre clearance facility in the ME, what? What is going to be so important that the ultimate leverage will need to be used?

More importantly, will the leadership of ALPA have the gonads to back one up and will the membership have the rocks to unify and do it?

Not sure about the current leader. Seems way too political and interested in his next career move. Always has even when he was here.

Open to ideas if anyone has them vis a vis the career killer potential events that are on the radar.

FIIGMO, want to weigh in as you said, "ALPA is the best prepared to serve the pilots going forward." How so? TOGA LK, goes for you as well, and don't get into DPA v ALPA. We have already established that the DPA alone would have no effect on these major issues.