Kindly consider this a response to FTB's point as well.

Just Council 44 is larger than FedEx. We have a highly functional political machine and there is a reason other airlines borrow from the ranks of Delta subject matter experts. We run ALPA; to the extent we want to.

However, those who perceive gain from selling other Delta pilots' jobs are given the convenient out of pointing at ALPA National, when in reality ALPA National's role was a ministrative authorization of our bargaining. No regional airline has even crammed one down on the Delta MEC, ever.

As much as a change in recognition would bind our management, it would bind our MEC into greater transparency. Our politicians would have to take greater ownership of scope positions and negotiations.