You will always need ALPA volunteers on full-time FPL. Some of these jobs/positions are time intensive to do and not having the adequate time to accomplish them would ultimately be detrimental to the pilot group.

Additionally, ALPA volunteers on full-time FPL are already capped at 95 hours (I think that’s right). And if they go fly they don’t earn over that. And to go fly would take them away from their full-time ALPA duties. The full-time ALPA volunteers earn much less than their line-flying peers who benefit from being able to pick up green slips and inverse assignments etc. So I just don’t understand what exactly it is that pilots are upset about with this.

To be honest, I think there needs to be a discussion of how to attract talented pilots to do full-time ALPA work. There’s a lot of talent amongst the pilot group and in my opinion not much incentive to do ALPA work. How do you attract top talent to work on behalf of the pilots?