This is entertaining if nothing else....Ray Charles could have seen this train wreck coming within ALPA.
That being said, what changes by leaving ALPA? American/APA and Eagle/ALPA have the same issues.
As much as it pains me to say this, ALPA didn't create this mess. They didn't help, but they sure didn't create it. EGO by "big airplane" drivers created this mess. Somehow, we got off the track by thinking that seat number and propulsion made us different. That was a mistake.
This morphed into using the smaller airplanes to "build time" so that one could become a "real" airline pilot. All the while, those at the top, continued to sell off the bottom numbers to protect what they had....The spiral tightened.....
Now here we are, and we somehow think that we can change the letters of the organization that represents us....Go for it if you want, but it doesn't change the basic problem, or the attitude that got us here....
Last edited by JoeMerchant; 09-21-2010 at 07:53 PM.