Originally Posted by wannabepilot

I realize that you don't make a dollar as an ALPA rep, and it's a very honorable that you take the time to do that job on top of your regular flying. As I said, I am an outsider, and I don't pretend to know all the workings of the ALPA. I was simply looking at the numbers. There were dollar figures supplied in the original posting, and I combined those numbers with other numbers that I crunched. The fact is that there is $55 million (a conservative estimate...probable more) that they do not account for in that "release." My point was that if I was an ALPA member, I would like to know where that $55 million (+/-) goes every year. My other point just has to deal with what I read on here. There are no doubt many, many issues facing professional pilots today. If the ALPA has $55 million to play around with, or even a fraction of that, I would think that there would be more progress towards these issues than I have observed as an outsider. Maybe I would see things differently if I was actually flying the line. No need to get your panties in a wad.