Originally Posted by BrazilBusDriver

If you start adding up travel and hotels/per diem in the DC area along with flight loss pay across all the man hours that would be involved in hammering an agreement out, it’s probably not.

Let’s say you’ve got a team of 10 that goes up to Herndon for 2 weeks. GSA per diem is $110/night for hotels and $68/day for meals incidentals. Oh, by the way, government travelers struggle to find hotels for that cost. So let’s say at least $200/night.

Lodging: 200x10x14 = $28,000

M&IE: 68x10x14 = $9,520

2 rental minivans @ 350/wk is easily $1000 after tolls and fuel.

Flight Loss pay…don’t know the formula here but if I take a swag and say an FO is worth $20k/month and a CA is $30k split evenly between seats across half a bid month?

Originally Posted by rickair7777

Terms? I doubt ALPA would care to treat it like a merger. AA would join under the existing, established structure, and would then by virtue of their not-insignificant constituency be able to attempt to make any changes.

I suppose allocation of current APA financial resources might be open to discussion, ie how much reverts to APA members vs. war chest for new ALPA MEC. I don't know how much if any ALPA National would want in the national kitty.