Is it a pairing still or an ID? Isn’t an ID the thing we wear on the nifty new ALPA lanyards? Employee number or file number? And what are we calling the jetways this week? Are we displaced off a trip or out of our category/BES?

In short who gives a **** about any of this? Now when it comes to mis-using loose and lose I care. Here’s a fun little memory aid. Lose has 4 letters like lost which is what it is related to. Loose has five letters like screw and tight which is what it refers to.

Ex)
If Kirby thinks we are giving up scope he has a screw loose.

We must not lose the fight for scope.