Originally Posted by
V12Merlin
Not at all. I think you missed my point. I don’t think we should give ALPA the middle finger. Instead, we should be demanding more from ALPA. Instead of negotiating for scraps, SENORITY AT THE RESPECTIVE MAINLINE is the order of the day. When we come out the other side of this latest bullish,t debacle, it’s gonna be a feeding frenzy for pilots. Add in the 73 max rts,buyouts of the top senority guys, scheduled retirements, ramp up for back to normal flight schedules. There’s no better time than now. It’s a historic opportunity to right a severe wrong perpetrated on the pilot profession. We’re all about to see real “American Horsepower” in action on this Chinese made pain in the a$$. Not gonna last as long as you all may think.
no more C Scale. Period.
Fair enough. Now, how? Do you really think that ALPA has the horsepower to enact this change? I don't. I paid APLA dues for 13 years when I flew Part 135 on a Metro (12k/year) and then Part 121 for USAir Express. In my career, there have been at least 3 big watershed events that could have precipitated some real changes within the piloting profession/ALPA. They never happened.
ALPA is a big flying club that
effectively only unionizes within each airline it represents. We look spiffy on Capitol Hill in our crisply pressed uniforms but that's about it. ALPA Legal (on an individual certificate scale) and ALPA Medical are both top-notch. But on a National level? Weak and without the tools to enact real change from my viewpoint. Hell, we even had ALPA pilots petitioning the Fed Gov to withhold stimulus monies from other ALPA pilot groups during the last industry upheaval! It wasn't so much effyew I got mine, it was effyew we got ours. Same dismal response leading to the same dismal results.
Sorry to be such a downer, but very little has changed (though nearly EVERYTHING else has changed) regarding ALPA representation issues from the top of the pile to the bottom. Big airlines have money and horsepower. Small airlines hold bake sales to get by. Until there is a National Seniority List, there will be a big cha$$$m between flying for a small regional and a large Intl airline.