Originally Posted by
rickair7777
The ALPA umbrella provides a lot of services to individual pilots, maybe better than what APA provides? I don't know.
In context of this discussion, ALPA national isn't going to come in and "fix" your MEC or straighten out your relationship with management, or negotiate a better covid deal for you. I can only think of one time in recent decades where national intervened in MEC contract negotiations by declining to approve a contract at a bottom-feeder regional.
I like ALPA, no complaints at the major, but it might not fix what ails you right now. I'm not saying it's not a good long-term move, but only APA pilots can make that call. If AA gets into an M&A at a disadvantage with the M&A partner then it would probably be best to be ALPA since all the likely partners are ALPA, and they do have some rules for SLI.
The context I thought this was about is a merger of APA and ALPA. Obviously if that were to happen, it doesn’t change the makeup of the pilots who work for AA. So with that established, what would the merger do for AA pilots? That’s what I was getting at in response to your comment about what has ALPA done for individual MECs. My answer is true and it’s true whether it’s a major airline or a regional airline. My two examples I gave were when I was at a regional airline!
As for merger possibilities, I think you put too much emphasis on APA being better off being ALPA in a merger with another ALPA airline. In that scenario, it’s the only time that ALPA National doesn’t get involved. So you wouldn’t get the benefit of the resources and knowledge from ALPA in that instance. The merger would done in accordance with federal law which basically says to negotiate, mediate, and arbitrate to come to a fair and equitable solution. They wouldn’t be tied to the three specific items required to be used in an ALPA merger although they would probably be used anyway.