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Agreed, and the best way to hold that line is a unified ALPA. It's easy kicking the table over and walking out of the room - it's a lot harder to get a seat back at it.
+1 Agreed 100%.
In reality it is our flying that we have agreed to have performed off of our list. It is totally within our right to keep it off the list or take it back without any conflict of interest within ALPA and the current by-laws.
Perception is different than this, but the reality is that we are free to do what we want.
I also agree with Nu's assessment. I suspect that we will see regional staffing going from around 4.5 crews per jet to well over six crews per jet. That makes all of that flying very unprofitable unless the we give them the ability to stick 86/88 seats in these jets. You know where I stand on that one.