Originally Posted by flapshalfspeed

They're more pragmatic than my previous ALPA carrier. Believe me you don't want a militant union run solely by senior lifer Captains that fights the company over every little thing and never compromises on anything.

MAG ALPA seems to pick their battles, rather than going on quixotic quests to make this place a career destination and/or sink the entire airline.

For example, it seems like they're compromising with the company on payrates in contract negotiations, but holding the line on the FOQA gatekeeper issue. They aren't going to push for payrates that would put the company out of business, but they are fighting the company on ludicrous stuff like company control of FOQA.