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Originally Posted by Readback
Name calling, the standard of the uninformed.
Chris "tingles" Mathews, what news reader from Faux taught you that?
Good gosh Readback, lighten up and loosen the seat belt a bit. But I believe it was you my friend who denigrated a portion of the population. Not anyone else on this thread until you brought up your cutesy little quip. Can dish it out, but can't take it...typical. Now back on topic, please.
Non of this was on ALPA's radar several years ago. They didn't give a rat's a** about ME carriers or any of the others. Interesting timing that DALPA, arguably ALPA's biggest contributor, was being run at with an independent union. Now follow this......also there was the uncertainty of what the TWA lawsuit award was to be. Estimates of close to over 100 mil were in the air. No one was going to pay an assessment to National to make up for their lack of representation in the TWA lawsuit.
So ALPA had to find some big bad villain...ME airlines, to keep all in the fold. You see, only through ALPA's PAC could there be protection from these evil doers. Only ALPA could save the US airlines.
The timing is beautiful. Coincidence? Maybe, but the timing of all of ALPAs rants, petitions, etc. came just prior to the TWA award and the possibility of losing the DAL pilots.
Answer this? Did, in years past, ALPA or DAL or UAL or anybody ever and I mean ever care that they were up against British, Lufthansa, Austrian, and SkyTeam members Aeroflot, Air France, Ailitalia, KLM, Saudi, Czech, and other Asian airlines? All of whom were either fully or partially government owned at one time or another. Never. What about a level playing field then?
But EK runs one flight from DXB to MXP to JFK and the "world is coming to an end". DAL has been doing similar, at some point or another, through STR, AMS, CDG, MAD and now in the Asian field.
Every airline gets its decade "in the sun". Some can repeat it, most don't. The playing field levels itself in most all instances. It may take awhile, but it does happen.