Other than wait for SWA (which uses and contracts with ALPA ) to take you out of the pool, what is the plan if DPA or DALPA close down scope in a major way on the next go round with the help of a Delta Air Lines who wants out of the RJ business?

That thread is about ALPA National and the fact that many guys are outraged that they represent the interests of rj pilots at the same time they represent mainline. But its not anti-union because unless you missed it, DPA is a union. Read it.

So even as a conservative right winger I am absolutely not anti-union. I've seen it from the inside and I see them as tantamount to what an agent is to an athlete or actor or a personal lawyer is to a wealthy person.

So on the local level, I like unions and the unionization of Skywest pilots is up to Skywest pilots. I'm not sure why thats viewed as a bad thing at Skywest. You don't do contracts based on having a CEO that is good and who likes you and you all drink koolaid from the same cup, you get contracts and get things in writing because you have to plan on the next CEO or the one after that who is hell bent on cutting pay and QOL. Thats why you have unions.

Whether you like ALPA or not, I'm not really sure there is much else to chose from for right now. And because half your pilots, to the glee of some Captains evidently, don't get paid enough to have enough dues money to have a union of quality without it subsidized by other airlines who don't call 1% pay raises the best they can get at the probable end of a recession.