Be it security relations, customs and immigration, transportation within and around the airport, the hotels... virtually every facet of this industry, not a day goes past where my perception isn't one of us having fewer and fewer advocates. Yet the best we can hope for is an illegal strike called for by a third party "start-up" calling themselves orange-blossom or whatever?!! Just how many 470 pilots do you think will participate?

You want change? FIRE EVERY ALPA's LEGAL STAFF MEMBER AND UN-ELECT THE ENTRENCHED, or you'll never see the leadership we are all clamoring for.

Get the ear of your congressional leader and tell them how the airline and your union are in bed together. Show them how they utilize the RLA to keep you from ever once truly negotiating via your collective bargaining agent with your employer. Demand change and hold ALPA accountable.