USALPA Troubles
Well, Mr. A-V-8R,
(and in your case the term "Mr." is quite loose). In the late 60's it was ALPA that forced the airlines to hire third pilots as featherbedders on the new 737's.
It was also an ALPA pilot that flew a DC-8 (pax flight) from KSEA (or was it KPDX) to KIAD at 10,000' because the "winds were more favorable".
And ALPA at United decided for a while (early 70's) that they would stop on the taxi-way any time a check list was being read before take-off and after landing. They also decided it was necessary to detour all thunderstorms by 500 miles. This was so they could force United to sign a 60 hour flight contract.
Another pilot on departing KLAX to KORD told the flight attendants they couldn't serve liquor on that flight because upon checking the liquor licenses on the a/c, the license from 2 states that the flight was going to fly over had expired. That pilot was, well, you guessed it, with ALPA.
ALPA was instrumental in burying Frontier Airlines and causing all those pilots (also ALPA) to lose their jobs.
Just how professional is ALPA? Well, if you went to the local meeting in the 50's-80's, with all the cursing and threats laid out, you thought you had walked into the wrong room into a meeting of a bunch of thugs. In fact, it was some ALPA pilots that were killing deer, cut off their heads, broke into the homes of dissenting members, and placed the heads in the bedrooms.
A-V-8R, you fit right in. l.r.