Wow! If that is the case then I wonder why so few pilots want any of those glorious jobs. Oh that's right. Because that is not the case and you completely full of shiite.

DePete now makes $526,000 plus perks. Plus deferring FedEx DB which he will collect lump sum at the end of his term.

If you don’t think the guys at ALPA National are not pigs at the trough, you are not paying attention.

we don’t have a lump sum option

Multiple people run for all of those jobs.

-UA

LEC reps are not highly compensated. They are compensated for the trips they are removed from to attend MEC meetings.

As for the ALPA president, regardless of whether any of this is true or not, I’ll withhold judgement until after his term is over to see what he actually accomplishes. If he has a legal way to get more compensation, then good for him. I’ll still just judge him by what he actually does as I would judge the guy who wants to be a billionaire by coming up with a cure for cancer. It’s not the motivation, it’s the results that matter to me.

Not hard to believe. And in fact true. He said this many many times throughout BOD.

100% accurate

February 1, 2019

I am writing because I know there have been some questions about my retirement from FedEx, and I want you to know my thinking as I made this difficult decision.

Flying is my passion, and I’m proud to have had the honor of being a Marine aviator, a commercial passenger pilot, and an air cargo pilot. During my more than 30 years of flying, I always felt that my colleagues were more than coworkers; they always were—and always will be—friends and family.

As I wrestled with the decision to retire, I had to take into account the fact that I will reach the FAA mandatory retirement age of 65 during the spring of the final year of my term as President and would not be able to return to line flying when my Presidency ends. In addition, it became clear that there were practical impediments to my staying current for the next three years. As a result, I came to the conclusion that retiring from FedEx now would allow me to turn all of my energies without distraction toward fulfilling my role as your President and would be the most appropriate course to best represent all ALPA members. Again, this was not an easy decision.

As ALPA President, I will remain exclusively devoted to representing all ALPA line pilots’ views, and achieving the goals of our union’s pilot-driven strategic plan. For the next four years, I intend to keep as my sole focus making ALPA stronger, leaner, and more responsive, using my lifetime experience as a pilot to guide my actions and my decisions.

Just to be clear, I will not receive further airline income and will not be eligible for any further accruals into any FedEx defined contribution or defined benefit retirement plan. Further, as of the date of my retirement, I have been voluntarily forgoing any distributions from any FedEx retirement plan and will continue to do so while I hold the office of ALPA President.

Article X, Section 1.A of ALPA’s Constitution and By-Laws makes clear that retirement is not an eligibility bar or concern.

As your President, I am solely invested in ALPA. Now that I’m retired from FedEx, I wanted to make it clear that I am unencumbered by any perceived loyalty to my past employer and owe my entire allegiance to this organization and its goals, and to the interests of the entire ALPA membership—not just to FedEx or any other carrier or a specific group of pilots. For example, I am going to be wholly committed to our efforts to promote the piloting profession’s agenda and protect, defend, and advance the safety and security of our industry and the careers of our pilots, whether it be with regard to the threat posed by the ME3 subsidized carriers, atypical employment arrangements, or any of the other serious challenges we face as a profession.

As your President, I have a singular focus and standard—doing what is right by all of the pilots I represent, period.
In solidarity,


Capt. Joe DePete
ALPA President

Actually that is often not the case and most pilots have to be convince into running as it is a huge personal sacrifice.

Wrong. Most are part of an inside group who spend the majority of their career in some type of ALPA position.

-UA