I encourage everyone to contact their LEC/MEC for more information about the Fee For Departure Task Force. There is a lot of good stuff going on behind the scenes and the information is available through ALPA if you ask for it. It's not available to the public for obvious reasons. Contract standards, one seniority list, etc are the things being addressed.

Seeing that Mesa brought the standard up a bit, this is something that can be used to form higher standards in the future. The potential certainly exists with so many contracts becoming amendable in the future.

It's only going to work if everyone is one board with the idea that we have to stop doing each another pilot's job for less and allowing management to shift flying around to the cheapest bidder without any repercussion. This includes people like GoJet pilots, who think its ok to underbid union flying.