Yes..........this pilot group is in rudderless trouble.

The REAL problem is not necessarily the issue at hand, but HOW THE UNION CHOSE TO HANDLE IT.

Eagle ALPA has a new MEC Chairman who has strongly advocated that flowthrough pilots must be required to flow to AA. The current leadership then devised a series of "resolutions" to accomplish just that, but has almost certainly failed.

Two things have been accomplished by this poorly timed and carelessly devised act. First, a demonstration that the leadership has poor skills in how to accomplish goals and second, they've further divided an already splintered group.

I don't see anything they can do to restore their credibility or our unity short of new elections for a broad-based group of new leaders. As such, I see little chance of an effective defense of our contract in 2013, the way things stand now.

This was a critical issue among our pilots and needed to be resolved carefully, but instead this group of so-called leaders botched the job hideously.