Not that I've seen any announcement in my inbox or online that he's running, but I’ll take Insler at the helm of ALPA vs. the likes of Barton any day. Insler got the company to see the wisdom of being in position for a recovery. He thought outside the box in keeping every United pilot employed, on property and ready to go for the expectant growth. And guess what? Many of you are in your new CATs, including those higher paying CA seats, because of that LOA which couldn’t have been that bad because it passed something like 58-42 IIRC. We have those same extremely junior pilots who would have been furloughed, including friends of mine, now upgrading when they were looking at years on the street. And based on perusing the bid awards, some of those anti-LOA “no” voters found themselves nice cushy WB left seats to boot. To me that’s a pretty good argument for success, not to mention those hundreds of millions of dollars in grievance awards he won FOR THE UNITED PILOTS! But I’m sure you’ll give that all back because he wasn’t good at his job and you didn’t deserve it.

I’ll definitely take him over Barton, an unhinged, reckless, hot head who belongs no where near any leadership position in the cockpit, at an LEC/MEC or as President of ALPA. Don’t take my word for it. Trust the military’s findings in his responsibility for causing two planes to crash off the coast of New Jersey. Still don’t trust the military? How about Barton’s own words when he resigned in disgrace and said himself that he wasn’t worthy of representing pilots. But yet, he came back again (“Please, sir, can I have some more?”) and was recalled by his own pilots. Bet you didn’t nor won’t see any of these facts in his campaign fiction.

Fake Gardner Barton is retiring at the beginning of October before the BOD dates according to the seniority list. Good. It’s about time. Hope he enjoys his retirement and sticks to sailboats.