speedbird 800,
Throw your discus away. BALPA is a member of IFALPA. IFALPA recommends its member associations to charge a minimum of 1% of salary as a subscription. Something like 100 pilot associations around the world do just that. Some charge even more. From your trail of posts,you are clearly anti BALPA. Fair enough, but just remember the old adage of you get what you pay for. You don't pay very much for the IPA/IPF so don't expect very much. Your post throws so many random issues together and blames all the ills on BALPA. Clearly an organisation with approximately 8500 members has to charge more per member than one like Amicus with several million. That does not make one organisation bad or the other good. Don't forget either, that if you have an accident just about anywhere in the world, a local IFALPA affiliated pilot association will rapidly come to your aid speaking the local lingo and knowing the local laws. Believe me, I've tried it! I don't think that Amicus will offer you that service, and I'm damn sure the IPA/IPF won't.
The choice is yours.
BC
PS With the (newish) tax relief on 66.6% of your BALPA subscription and a new increased national fixed rate expense allowance on the way, the 1% subscription will effectively reduce to zero. So what price Amicus or the IPA?
Last edited by Brae_Cwynd; 7th April 2006 at 23:49.