"The AOA has no real sway do they"
No, they don't. And the real reason they don't is because of the members, NOT the GC.
Look at last week's successful action by the girls. In a few short weeks they managed to get the company to actually change its mind and give way on some stuff.
Why can they do it, but we cannot? Well, I believe that the company is actually scared of the girls, but not us. Generalising in a big way: average age of the cabin attendants is maybe 25 and few of them (if any) are earning their family's main wage: in other words, they are working for beer money and could probably get another job on similar conditions very easily; hence they are not too worried about getting fired and therefore not too worried about going on strike - and the company knows this!
So how do we grow the same set of blls that our girls seem to have?