Originally Posted by
DickBurns
ALPA national has more than a few well compensated attorneys that have looked at this six ways from Sunday. They have a plan. If there was a way to leverage the company, it would have been implemented already. The process is slow. The only thing that you can do is show up to work as usual and trust ALPA.
Exactly.
If a labor attorney walked up into your flight deck and said "Hey, I am not a pilot, can I fly the Airbus," we would say "get out of here and enjoy your non reclining seat.
So its humorous to read pilots wanting to say what the best course of action is in mediation. Made even more humorous with the fact that none of us or on the inside of whats going on.
We pay dues and joined a national union to let them direct the heavy lifting and rely on their expertise. Let them direct this ship just as passengers allow us to direct ours.
Thankfully the MEC can give F-all about what the vocal minority feels. Billboards...haha....try asking a passenger if they feel bad that our CAs only make $150k and a United CA makes $250k...im sure they will shed a tear for all of us. Many of our passengers second option to travel over Spirit is a bus or their own vehicle, its all they can afford.