Originally Posted by
django
Q, are you intimate familiar with the provision of the RLA? It wouldn’t appear so based on your statements.
By the way, you (everybody) should watch the PBS documentary What Lies Upstream. It's about water pollution but it shows the corrupt system of unelected bureaucrats that make the regulations that govern for federal agencies. Juxtapose this to the FAA. How much have we (ALPA) lobbied to get the RLA changed? There is one scene in that documentary where the stakeholders are all big corporations having a meeting with a government agency to regulate water. It starts at 50 minutes in.
https://www.njtvonline.org/programs/...stream-eb1e3w/
It sounds like what we need are a series of special interest groups of our own, each its own corporation, that show up to FAA meetings of all kinds to benefit pilots. The liberal left has tons of these organizations (e.g. Southern Poverty Law Center) which have their tentacles deep into media, social manipulation, the education system, entertainment, and especially government. After watching this, it makes you wonder who really wrote the RLA.
Let's further study this... look at what happened with the recent catastrophic engine failure over at Southwest Airlines. From ALPA:
"By AJ Dellinger, Gizmodo. "As the National Transportation Safety Board continues to investigate what caused an engine explosion on a Southwest flight that led to the death of a passenger earlier this week, Reuters reported the airlines fought against new inspections rules proposed by the engine manufacturer. In September 2016, a Southwest flight suffered a similar engine explosion that resulted from a broken fan blade and tore a nearly foot-long hole into the wing of the aircraft, which forced to make an emergency landing. ... While the proposal gained the support of the Air Line Pilots Association, which represents more than 60,000 pilots in the US and Canada, Southwest—a company that posted a total revenue of $21.2 billion in 2017—opposed the rule change, taking issue with the government's math and proposed timetable for the inspections: SWA does NOT support the CFM comment on reducing compliance time to 12 months."
Here's the article:
https://gizmodo.com/southwest-report...d-t-1825405710
Again, lobbying got a corporation what they want.
Why are we (ALPA) not having the same level of effect as industry lobbyists?
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