Pegasus thanks for your comments.
Unfortunately I do agree with you that holding meetings would be useless as members simply do not turn up, not because they don't want to, but for a myriad of reasons, not enough time off, too far and so on.
However don't misunderstand this for non interest!
I have absolutely no objection to a union official picking out open time trips,I understand that from time to time they need to drop trips for union business.
As long as its not always the "cushy" trips.
MM and AS should do a trip per roster, after all there is nothing better than first hand experience! Its very easy for non flying people to forget "what its like" out there!