My 2 cents on informational picketing..worth half of that.

I had a passenger come up to me last week and said "I had my flight canceled last week because Spirit couldn't find a pilot to fly it. Why don't you guys want to work?"

As incorrect as she is, that's the passengers opinion and one I'm sure many of our pax have. It wasn't "why won't the airline pay you guys more to attract more pilots and have improved staffing models to fly flights"

So I don't think informational picketing will do much, if anything, to sway a typical airline passenger, worse for our passengers who are price driven amongst anything else.

The only positive benefit I can see from picketing (positive is a loose term) is passengers may feel that unhappy pilots may make for a less safe flight. Clearly incorrect, but most passenger assumptions are incorrect many times over.

It's a new era and the union workforce is viewed differently than it was 30 years ago. So walking in circles might not be the best modern day approach, given the benefit we have with social media these days.

Picketing is good press for ALPA to show that they are there. Probably why ALPA still uses picketing outside of work releases

Stuart Morrison with a 2 minute news spot on local FLL news or a viral social media campaign will have a far greater impact