Originally Posted by
Arado 234
I have been here almost 13 years. I have seen nice perks disappear under APA, including:
• Jumpseater in the BOW (not sure how/if the new contract fixes that with taxi fuel)
• Jetway trip swap
• scheduling qualify esp. trip trading.
• lots of other little things
Is it an APA issue or more an AA pilot issue to re-invent what the other group had already brought to the table?
Where would we be now without UA and DL? I probably would be sitting airport reserve (CAW) which I am kinda doing anyway when I have a nice 3+ hour break in one of our hubs.
We seem to have a better reserve system than UA and DL (no limit how many times you get transitioned to SC?), not sure how miserable their trip trading is compared to ours. I am still waiting for Ed's solution to our TTS 2.0 cluster.
APA ran ads about our crappy schedules, but all of a sudden it wasn't a priority any more. TTS 2.0 has been forced upon us by ONE APA person. No committee or board had reviewed TTS 2.0 before it went live. Source: Ed Sicher.
Those are some of my personal points, would that get fixed under ALPA? Would we have the same people that screwed us under APA over at ALPA?
Don't forget when APA "took a stand" and refused 200% over the Christmas Holidays a couple years ago when UA and DL were offering it to their pilots. What did that ever get us? Zilch. The Self-importance and omnipotence the BOD feels about themselves leads to many reckless decisions like that.
The issue is how our union is structured more than the people themselves. It is like Communism, might seem great on paper but it always 100% of the time leads to corrupt/dictator like governments. Harder to do under ALPA’s structure.