TWA Dude
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SCAPEGOAT: a: one that bears the blame for others b: one that is the object of irrational hostility
(from www.merriam-webster.com)
ALPA is a target because it's so easy to blame a faceless bureaucracy. Whatever ill comes to our profession should've been prevented by the omniscient ALPA. That's how most people think. In reality, ALPA (and any pilot union, for that matter) is only as smart as its pilots.
ALPA Merger Policy has been substantially unchanged since the early '90s yet somehow it now becomes "flawed" because a pilot group didn't get what they feel they deserved. Not to mention, this same pilot group already went through the same Merger Policy in the late '90s by the same arbitrator!
If you really want to trace all the current problems look no further than certain pilots' sense of entitlement. No union can fix that.
