Even with ALPA and Bond-McCaskill, I am sure ALPA could find a way to royally F it up. It is ALPA's wet dream to get AA back under their wing, and if an AA/JB merger happened I wouldnt be surprised to see ALPA throw JB under the bus in an attempt to appease the APA pilots and win them back.

Sure they would, they have already F'd it up with the American/TWA merger. TWA has filed a suit against ALPA for unfair seniority merger I believe. However, I really would like to avoid this direction. I simply want to look at JetBlue and what's best for our company and union representation. I would pay more out of my pocket for in house vs. 2% to ALPA.

I would gladly pay 5k out of pocket as part of a start up contribution for in-house representation as opposed to bringing Alpa on property. I think majority of pilots feel we need representation of some sort and Alpa just happens to be the easiest/cheapest/quickest option right now. I think we owe ourselves more than that.

Definitely...and remember, you get what you pay for! Quick, easy, cheap representation.
ALPA is not what we need here at JBU. They do not have our best interests, we have our best interests and we need to change this movement from ALPA to in house! Talk to any of the other major airlines with ALPA. US Air voted ALPA out, Delta is working to vote ALPA out. ALPA is not the union it used to be back during the days of big Legacy Airlines and pre 9-11 and it will not ever return to that.

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ALPA is the Walmart of representation.

I am confused on what ALPA has done for any of the recent airlines that have merged? They have all gone to arbitration and an arbitrator decided the seniority list. Not trying to flame just wanting to be educated.

What does maybe mean reroute? Does Bond-McCaskill state that the legislation doesn't apply to non union pilots? If it does, I sure haven't read it.

I'm sure you'll post the evidence if I'm wrong.

Carl

All true.

Carl

Exactly what they did to the TWA pilots. Exactly.

Carl

Don't forget that just recently AirTran voted ALPA IN, the guys at FDX voted ALPA IN, both had independent unions and BOTH groups have fared MUCH better with ALPA rather than being on their own. APA has hired the ALPA law firm to help negotiate a new deal.

DAL has about 2500 guys out of 12300 who are unhappy with ALPA. That will NOT get ALPA off property.

SWA has NEVER established a new bar. They were compensated 20-30% less than other major airline pilots since their inception. They are at the top right now because others fell back, not because they have "outperformed" ALPA as an independent bargaining agent.