+1 Exactly right.

A web board isn't going to represent you in the Chief Pilot's Office, in front of the FAA, get your medical back, solve your scheduling issues, process your grievances, defend your contract, represent pilots in any accident's or incidences either in the US or overseas, etc, etc. and we haven't even gone into the complexities of navigating a full section six negotiation.

DPA quite frankly does not have the capabilities to represent 12,000 professional pilots. Only the most naive and ill informed would believe that it is possible to stand up a new union from scratch and not only do the daily grunt work, which takes hundreds of volunteers, on day one, but also engage in section 6 in any meaningful way in 2012.

JMHO