Originally Posted by Splash

Yeah. That's great. Next time you're at a local meeting, do me a favor and report the number of your peers you see in attendance.

Then read the ALPA web board, and report the number of your peers who post.

Then report the number who bother to vote.

Then tell me how the DPA is going to overcome your loneliness. Tell me how it will force pilots to participate. Tell me how it's structure will be different...how it won't be run by elected pilots who must weigh the sometimes counterproductive actions and narrowly-focused directives issued by its membership (those local resolutions) against their more-informed judgement.

Tell me.