Bonvol,
AIPA should be banned from being a union for crimes against unionism IMO.
'A' pilots are not the enemy and it's simply petty and distracting to continue to attack them whilst we are having our conditions erroded by the like of JetStar etc.
AIPA has not done a dam@ thing whilst hundreds of pilot positions/promotions have been taken away from it's original members. Indeed it could be speculated that a number of those benefiting in JetStar, Jetconnect etc, are indeed refugees from Ansett and would most likely be the equivalent to the 'A' pilot you love to attack, except these ones have now help to undercut pilots conditions once again.
It's time to get over the whole 'A' pilot thing, it's not constructive and indeed has recently caused a serious drop in pay on the 330 because of the bigoted attitude it contues to fester. Lets drop it and see if we can focus on leaving something behind for future Mainline pilots.
Q pilot