A colleague of mine recently told me that the AFAP strongly endorsed an EBA for Cobham
pilots claiming it was about as good a deal as those pilots will ever get. Several weeks later and after a group of independent pilot reps started scooping large numbers of pilots who had lost faith in both the AFAP and the TWU, a deal was struck that is now magnitudes better. If the AFAP want to represent the masses in Australia, they’ll need to stop displaying their ineptitude as a union first, TWU as well.