Thank you for saying this. I'm a retired DL guy and my son flys for UA so I look at your APC section to keep up on current events. I also was a LEC chairman at DL. In my experience none of the guys that served with me in my council were in it for anything other than trying to improve the profession. I and my fellow council reps certainly had a lot of trip drops but we were very busy putting together contract 2000 which was a tumultuous time. Those who we placed in committee work also did the vast majority of their work with very few trip drops. They served because they wanted to improve conditions for all. I'm not denying there are not some who do this work for personal selfish reasons, but those in my experience are few. Personally, I sometimes regret doing the work because of the family events I could not be home for when my sons were teenagers. I like to think the DL and UA pilots (DL + 1%) had much better contracts because of all the volunteers who took a slice of time from their lives to do the work.