ALPA National has no interest in Trans States. History has proven it. When Trans States was about to go on strike (99 or 2000), senior ALPA members pressured the then-MEC to stop the strike vote, because it would had been a financial disaster for TWA. The vote went ahead anyway, and was quite successful (99%), the highest vote in ALPA's history. The owner backed down, and the pilots got what they wanted - Industry Average.
ALPA National is also partly responsible for the single carrier issue between GoJets and Trans States Airlines. All I used to get was a propaganda periodical telling me what all good ALPA does. For whom?
The problem lies within ALPA itself. No interest for the regionals except collecting their dues.
What this is about? Outsourcing! Mainline jobs going to regionals. Don't be convinced that this won't happen in Euroland, with people like WW at BA. He'd be more than happy to put a external regional 90 seater on a route that was served by a 319 or similar...
Last edited by Squawk7777; 2nd October 2009 at 12:06.