What can I say, whenever DALPA has called for some type of picketing, I've been there marching with a sign in both New York and Boston. Other than that, I don't recall Delta ever going out on strike.

As for voting, I've voted Yes sometimes and I've voted No sometimes. About 50-50 in my career (includng voting NO on C2K, the supposed gold standard of contracts because I felt the scope giveaways were too great). Strangely, I'm not hair triggered to vote a certain way 100% of the time. Mostly, I'm just a line pilot who tries to stay informed, votes on all elections and TAs, and freely admits that I'm not willing to sacrifice my time-off to do the kind of work that the ALPA guys have to do.

If you told me that Carl has done all sorts of elected and/or volunteer work for ALPA or that he regularly shows up to meetings with Resolutions in hand that he's come up with to help his fellow pilots, I'd be far more impressed than if you told me he went out on Strike with the rest of his pilot group. Who knows....maybe he has done all those things and more, but barring that knowledge, he's simply another keyboard warrior with an opinion like the rest of us, not some kind of hero.