While I'm certainly not an ALPA apologist, ALPA is well aware of the issues.

The Indians and Chinese are currently prohibited from invading the US domestic market (the largest aviation travel market in the world, though certainly not the easiest one to make $ in) b/c they don't have 5th freedom rights. However, the EU is working very hard at whittling away these policies through 'open skies' talks. For all the bad-mouthing of ALPA, they are the largest pilot presence in the discussion right now - IBT and CAPA do not have seats @ the table in a meaningful way, for better or for worse.

Codeshare is the new scope, and we all should be worried, not just mainline pilots. Midwest Airlines' pilot jobs were eliminated through a 'codeshare' too - meaning even the short haul domestic market isn't immune to codeshare issues. If you think some of our regionals can do the job on the cheap, you 'aint seen nothin' yet - the costs, or lack there of, that the Chinese will ultimately be able to unleash on the markets they have access to will make even the most efficient low cost operators and RJ pilot pushing outfits blush with envy. If you don't want the entire US aviation industry to be stamped with a 'made in China', you better get behind ALPA. Like it or not, ALPA's all we've all got right now.

And @ least ALPA doesn't forget to write "A350 design is a metal barrel design just with composite panels" . . . leave that little tidbit out, it changes the whole post, and you get jumped on! My bad, or course the A350 isn't a metal barrel.