It may happen sooner than we think. With the drop in dues revenues and Prater's spending on things like his latest "bring 'em all" roadtrip to NZ, it's getting ugly on what's left of the 8th floor that hasn't been sold off.

What's worse, with safety as the one thing they used to be able to claim the high ground on, they just cut back Air Safety Week to an every other year event. Safety's no better, the issue was they couldn't afford it.

A friend in Congressman Oberstar's office said today that they just found out about the UAL-Aer Lingus deal yesterday...from the Teamsters Airline Division. With UAL being ALPA, you'd think they would have been up there a long time ago. Said ALPA hasn't even spoken to them about setting up a meeting about it.

As big a supporter of ALPA that Oberstar has been for years?...damn.