You have some strange views...
Ive asked this before of you and didn't get a substantive answer; for the second time..How did the first ASL integration add to your command time? .
Listen carefully I shall say this only once. Very simple, CX did lots of hiring in 98 and 99 on the pax fleet, but could only start 4 a week on course so plenty ended up waiting for start dates of a year or so. However there wasn't such a delay with ASL on the freighter between interview and course sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo the net result is that hundreds of guys who interviewed and got pax jobs have had command slots taken by freighter crews who interviewed later but got start dates on the freighter fleet earlier. And who ended up on the pax fleet with a command even though that's not the job they interviewed for or (I assume) were expecting.
AOA was made aware of this by the company, that adding 100-odd freighter pilots on a single day disadvantaged pax joiners and overnight added considerably to command time. AOA decided this was distant future and irrelevant.
I am not sure where you get your information from regarding CX Industrial Relations.... but I would change sources pretty quick....
That all came from chatting with the AOA Pres. at the time, I am attempting to change sources pretty quick. For the moment, I pay scant regard to anything the union tells me.
You float the idea of non-Captains breaking away and forming a union. Non- Captains out-number Captains, so by your theory Non-Captains should join the AOA and under "one man-one vote" load the GC with like minded individuals.
No, you misunderstand me. The AOA won't ever move forward as a common body when it happily sells out one part of it's membership to another (I'm pretending that the ASL crews that came across were all union members when the AOA was fighting to get them pax seniority) That fundamentally goes against the heart of an association . The post '99 crews need representation as cohesive body themselves that isn't found in the AOA today.
If, somehow, I loaded up the AOA GC with post '99 joiners there wouldn't be a captain amongst us and even I can see this wouldn't work. Though I would argue there would be far more equality and understanding and perhaps the more senior members would see the difficulties junior members are facing.