AllenAllert

ALPA friends and staff gathered to celebrate the extraordinary career of former president Capt. John Prater (United), who on March 9 flew his final flight from Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport to Virginia’s Washington Dulles International Airport.

Since 1978, Prater has been an avid pilot representative and a faithful steward of the airline piloting profession—he’s been notably called “a pilot’s pilot.” With a piloting career that began in 1978 with Continental Airlines, Prater has been a consistent union activist for his profession and played a pivotal role in the merger of ALPA with the Independent Association of Continental Pilots in 2001. On Jan. 1, 2007, Prater began his term as ALPA’s eighth president.

Capt. Tim Canoll, ALPA’s current president, said of Prater’s career: “Your decades-long leadership among the ALPA pilot ranks, including the four years you served as president, is a testament to your indisputable and personal commitment to our proud profession and the union that represents us all.”

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Makes you proud - doesn't it?

intrepidcv11

March 9th. Way to let it marinate Staller.

AllenAllert

I take it that you went to his retirement party.

ALPA national installed him to give the CAL pilots a little creditable. The CAL guys sent a buffoon and national spent his tenure making sure he didn't screw anything up. You can't rewrite history when many people know the story but I guess you can get your feeling hurt - can't you.

Marinate - NO! That smell is a stench.

XHooker

The stench is from the garbage you post on the forum. Prater walked the line for two years and when he returned, he helped bring a union back on the property at CAL. When things go bad, the ALPA President will always be blamed for line pilots complaint du jour, rightly or wrongly, whether it's Worth, Prater, Moak, or anyone else. Your post shows your ignorance about how ALPA works and you're not fit to carry Prater's nav bag.

AllenAllert

Simple - as a crawl-back what exactly did Prater do to get a union on CAL property. It was the People Express pilots that forced the issue of a functional union before that your working conditions were dictated by Frank. Prater along with the other crawl-backs helped take the jobs of rEAL pilots - so don't give me that BS. He's no better than the Scabs the CAL pilots let back into ALPA. You're not a crawl-back are you?

Boeing Aviator

Please remind me how many ALPA Presidents came from United? As a former ALPA BOD member who voted in national officer election cycle, I'd like your expert opinion of how ALPA national installs someone?

AllenAllert

Trying to delivery a welcome message to the CAL pilots the BOD came to a consensus that making a CAL pilot National President would do exactly that - hence the lobby efforts begin - Prater gets the votes and National installs a known buffoon.

It's the same way DL keeps getting their guy installed on a regular bases. It's all political - you should know that.

XHooker

I don't know what's more impressive, your equating a two year striker with a scab or your total lack of command of the players, mechanisms and history of both ALPA and the IACP. My bad for engaging when the real fun is watching you make a fool out of yourself by proudly displaying your ignorance.

AllenAllert

Truth hurts doesn't it - you're trying to equate IACP with a functional union - sorry............

Probe

Hi Staller. We missed you.