Hey, that's great - but why didn't someone in the ALPA forums say this every time a Mad Dog guy complained about the high ALVs earlier this year? I may of missed it, but the response I always saw in the forum was "The company is in compliance with the TLV, and overall for the year, it will balance out." All that does is annoy the pilot group, who knows the company is in compliance, but needs an better answer than that to "Why am I working so much?"

DALPA needs a better PR job - I don't doubt that ALPA is doing good things for us, but when I hear how my MEC is supporting a deal in the Wall Street Journal first - it makes be frustrated.

In this day and age, how hard is for the MEC to send out an email or short letter from Moak the night before saying, "hey, we're going to support the JAL stuff, I don't have time right now to explain, but I will in a week".? Then within a week, write us all a nice letter explaining it to us.