Originally Posted by
rp2pilot
Ask a JetBlue ALPA member if they support codeshare with Emirates .. they'll either be truthful and say yes, or lie and say no. They WANT the ME codeshares since they lack the international feed. Therein lies the problem with lobbying this issue. Ask Boeing Union members if they want NAI .. more 787's, more jobs, no brainer. Ask Delta if they want ATC modernization for better slot management in the Northeast. They don't care about that so much .. it'd help United more than them and they don't want that.
This is the problem with pseudo-deregulation. Everyone still has to rely on their man in Washington to get an advantage. That's great until someone else presents a better bargain to the man in Washington. What can you do at that point, complain that your competitors' payoffs were larger than yours?
Agree. At the end of the day we are united as pilots until it affects our individual airlines either positively or negatively.
And it happens within a specific airlines pilot groups as well, especially when it's contract time. "I want pay...I want work rules....the contract prevents me from earning more....the contract saves my job.....". See the mini ****storm that just happened on the widebodies, when the SSC determined they no longer had to grant a contractual waiver in order to build PBS lines. Pilots complaining that ALPA was forcing a 10+% paycut because instead of 90 hours, they could only be awarded a max of 80 per the contract. We are our own enemy.
Herding cats is easier then getting pilots to agree on something, let alone pilots at competing carriers.