Originally Posted by Herkflyr

Of course they haven't--and they never will. They are the middle-school equivalent of "free beer tomorrow." They will slowly slide into the irrelevance they have always merited. While they claim "ALPA hacked our website and we're going to the FBI!" and can't see past that, ALPA actually gets it--the far vaster threat to our careers is the Emirates and Etihads of the world, not E-VILL (mwah hah hah) Moak.

Being a national union that can get a seat in the room and at least speak its voice in Washington is a very important thing. The DPA? They would be the equivalent of someone stuck outside the barricaded doors, fruitlessly pounding on the doors of the already-locked vault.