I’m curious about you Tom. In your mind, has the IBT been perfect? They’ve never done wrong by you? Perhaps you’re an individual who was “wronged” by ALPA during previous employment at TWA or ComAir. Nonetheless, I struggle to see given the events of the last year how one can be so pessimistic about leaving the IBT.

I just took a glance at the G4 ALPA site, it’s still active. While there haven’t been any recent communications, there is plenty of good material addressing questions surrounding the topic. To simply state it’s inactive— naive.

If we pilots demand the industry standard contract we deserve, shouldn’t it be negotiated and administrated by industry standard representatives? I really encourage you to look into the experience of Mr. Unterseher and his self appointed team of “experts”.

-What contracts have they been successful with?

-Which of their language has proven to be resilient to the inevitable grievance process?

-Where have they failed and what did they learn?

Rather than be such an emotional being, perhaps take a new approach and ponder our present situation using logic.