Originally Posted by
ImSoSuss
Disagree. AA absolutely owns APA at the negotiating table and they know it. How many times did we hear "we asked and they said no" when we had perhaps the greatest leverage as pilots in history? ALPA and the National Office is a different animal and I truly believe AA management is hoping we keep APA in place. They don't want us to have the backing of the national office next round of negotiations.
I don’t disagree with your statement that AA owns APA at the negotiating table. And I don’t disagree that ALPA has better negotiation support. I am not talking about that. I am talking about every day operations. There is absolutely zero evidence that AA management, scheduling, pick a department, will behave any different on day to day operations just because we are ALPA. I’m happy to be wrong.