When this situation has been created and continues to grow now because VIPA is born of people who were not willing to pitch in and assist the AFAP but whinged that the AFAP could not perform miracles for them,
Ah, the mantra of the diehard supporter.
Time & time & time again the failings of the AFAP are blamed on its constituency.
Like it or not the AFAP is increasingly becoming irrelevant & isolationist; And when the last of the dispute pilots die out, the last remnants of its die hard support base will be gone.
The only way that the AFAP can survive is by pointing the finger internally, seriously reviewing their core business and embracing the other unions.
I think it's universally agreed that no pilot thinks well of VA t & C's, but the fact is that the airline does exist; So any cohesive effort to improve conditions must be encouraged & can only be beneficial to the industry as a whole. And if by some genius/miracle/black magic the Vaus pilots achieve a favourable outcome where does that leave the AFAP? Isolationist? Irrelevant? Looking like a petulant child?