"APA split off from ALPA in 1963, and "pretty much everyone has forgotten any reason why," said Mitch Groder, an American first officer based in Philadelphia." This from the below article. Recall the serious debate on why American didn't go back to ALPA? Could it be ALPA's over-representation of the regional sector? I would welcome the mainline pilots of American within ALPA. That would be huge. How do you pull that off? Aren't the American Airlines pilots interests alligned with the vast majority of mainline airline pilots in US and Canada?

Unhappy American pilots to push union switch after five decades

Oct 24, 2016, Bloomberg News


"Some pilots oppose the return to ALPA out of concern that dues would rise and that the bigger national structure is inefficient. Also, the larger union represents regional airline pilots, whose interests don't always line up with those of the bigger carriers."

Why did American Pilots leave ALPA in 1963?

The history on that is strikingly similar to today. APA was born because ALPA sued their own APA MEC and NC Chair. Why? APA disagreed with ALPA on two major things: Crew Compliment and qualifications and the turbo-prop study. This Turbo-prop study was essentially the genesis of the commuter industry which gave birth to the regional industry. Just saying.....If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's probably not a rabbit.