Originally Posted by
IQuitEagle
Yeah right. Then why, pray tell, did the powers-that-be change the official stance on age 65, when the majority of the members surveyed came out against it, not once, but twice? Why did then ALPA president Woerthless give a speech to the APA in MIA back in late 2001 about how "regional pilots don't make up the majority, so don't worry if their interests are in conflict with yours"? And I thought that we at Eagle, not American,were actually voting members of ALPA...
Not to turn this into an age 65 debate or what not, but come on. I was an ALPA member before. Not impressed. Not really impressed with IBT either, and maybe ALPA is the lesser of two evils. But let's not get carried away with ourselves thinking that ALPA is all that.
From what I understand, ALPA was against the age 65 rule from the start. The only reason they backed it was because it was going to pass whether or not ALPA wanted it so why not have a little say in the bill rather than getting nothing. It is just delaying the inevitable.....the old guys have to go sometime.