Originally Posted by
Sliceback
"as the largest pilot group represented there, we stand to gain much more than we would with APA."
1. Do you think ALPA would push any APA agendas ahead of their long term members agendas?
2. Think being big gives you more influence? Read up on how, and why, APA split from ALPA.
I think they also have a quantifiable history of throwing sub-groups of their pilots under the bus for their own benefit. The TWA disaster and their communique to Envoy pilots to essentially accept scraps and not rock the boat are but two. Since the RLA has been unilaterally gutted by airline managements, Congress and the NMB, political clout on Capitol Hill by ALPA is a pipe dream. Those who think running headlong into the jagged stiletto of ALPA will give them a warm, fuzzy sensation are kidding themselves.