Originally Posted by
Tattooedaviator
First. I never claimed victimhood. My life has been pretty smooth here- no complaints whatsoever, there are only a few things in my wishlist, but it isn’t anything I can’t live without. I will admit that I am one of those, “my life is peachy” people.
2nd- sorry for using “most” when you said “a lot”.
3rd- sorry for misunderstanding your use of junior. You may not have meant it disparagingly, but any other time someone asks in person about how I feel about APA/ALPA and I say I don’t care, the first response is usually, “ you’re too junior to understand”, and then go on to complain about APA with no explanation of how ALPA makes it better. So, yes, I was an ******* and assumed you meant it smugly.
4th- I will always be an RHIP kinda guy- or in this case- SHIP. So I don’t care if work rules benefit the top third more than the bottom two-thirds.
5th- if **** was so egregious during Covid- and I believe it was- (someone) get the facts out to people that weren’t here. Show the receipts as the kids say. I’m sure it will sway people.
For now, I just don’t care who represents us, but I haven’t been convinced to vote for change.
I’m willing, though.
This is going to sound like a cop-out but I assure you it's not. The list is truly too long and I don't want to miss anything and de-legitimize it. I wish I kept some sort of electronic scrap book. There have been good "lists" posted on here before but there's no way I could find them.
Junior pilots were used as pawns both internally inside APA and externally with the company. Of course we weren't ALWAYS negotiating with the company during covid because APA dissolved the NC for like 4 months after the president and NC chair had a fight. So when DAL and UAL ALPA were saving their pilot's jobs APA had no one that was even authorized to talk to the company on our behalf. Junior pilots "losing" is not an isolated incident at APA.