Unions are only as good as their members, which often gets lost in the middle of all these arguments. Hence the reason why IMHO the ALPA leadership at XJT has been very successful at working with management to improve and/or resolve any issues through out the years. Conversely, if you look at a union leadership like that of MESA a few terms back, well not exactly who I would want in my corner, and they were also ALPA. So again, the union is as good as the people in it, supporting it.

As far as the original poster's question, one word for you...Lorenzo. Have your wife read jflying the line vol 1 & 2, and if that isn't enough, have her take a look around, Tilton, J.O., Bedford, need I say more?