The ALAE as it was did a sterling job of maintaining our status in the face of some very strong opposition and gave us a voice quite high up, and I think since it rolled into Prospect the availability of resources to help members increased, but they have let our profile and representation, especially with CAA/EASA be diluted - well I never hear much of it anyway, not even a newsletter covering aircraft engineering aspects and articles as per "Tech Log" did. I would potentially like to see the association as a representative body come about again, but I think one of the problems the ALAE had was getting people like us to step up and take on some of the roles on what I believe was an unpaid/voluntary basis. I seem to remember most of the team was at the higher range of the working age bracket (no offence intended!) and I think it would have to be on a far more full time and paid position to give us the full resources that Prospect provide whilst specialising in the knowledge of what we do and being able to represent us with the regulatory bodies and employers where agreements are in place, so essentially a stand alone Union again with a good sized membership.
It would have been interesting to see if the old ALAE would have made any difference to the current CAA-EASA licensing equivalency mess post Brexit.