Originally Posted by
MD80
Think about all the money wasted at ALPA headquarters in Herndon!
A number of airline pilots are members of independent associations and are doing just fine... Southwest, American, JetBlue, Frontier, UPS to name a few. ALPA National wants (needs) us to believe they have something special...
I haven't seen it.
ALPA works in much the same way as CAPA. DALPA, CALPA, FALPA, UALPA, etc are autonomous. They get together to form an association such as CAPA, and call it ALPA. The difference is that ALPA has many other resources that CAPA members purchase, such as aeromedical.
Originally Posted by
Captain Tony
ASA + XJT will be nearly 4000 pilots strong. There is no reason to continue to suck the breast of ALPA. In fact, an effort is underway to take it in-house.
A lot stronger with ALPA then without, even with 7000 regional pilot group.
There is no conflict of interest in all airline pilots getting together to fight for the good of the profession where it really makes a difference, in the white house, congress, nmb, dot, faa, dhs, tsa, dol, courts, etc. The separate MECs will always deal with their own companie's internal issues and negotiations. Today's regional exist because of mainline pilots. And its mainline pilots who can change that. Its always been that way and will always be that way. As long as regionals exist the way they do today, there is nothing wrong with ALPA representing them or doing away with them.