Colgan votes in ALPA!

[Nevets]

Building Our Union
Our Next Steps

We are providing this guide to give every pilot a better sense of what will happen after the election and to answer your questions about what having ALPA representation will mean to us as Colgan pilots. But until December 17, our primary focus must remain on the task at hand: winning the election and securing ALPA representation. Every pilot needs to vote—not voting is a vote against representation under NMB rules!

If you have already voted, we thank you and encourage you to remind others to cast their vote. If you are still undecided, please attend one of our informational meetings, check out our website at www.alpa.org/colgan, or contact any member of the Organizing Committee listed on the back cover for more information about how joining ALPA will help our careers here at Colgan.

Working Within ALPA: The Fee for Departure Working Group

You may not know that ALPA already represents 14 different fee-for-departure carriers, representing
over 16,000 pilots flying under the colors of every major airline. With all of those groups working
together, we can increase the bargaining power of fee-for-departure pilots who currently find their
flying coming and going at the whim of mainline partners.

The Fee for Departure Working Group was founded on the principle that as managements work together, so should pilots. The goals of the Working Group are the same as the goals of all pilots—
ensuring reasonable pay, benefits, work rules, and job security, recognizing the pilots’ contribution to
the success of their company, and improving the quality of life for pilots and their families.

The Working Group is seeking to meet these goals by fostering collaboration between all fee-fordeparture carriers across all mainline partners. Specific goals include:

? Industry-wide contract harmonization relating to pay, work rules, and benefits
? Development of career pathways to mainline partners and the ability to follow flying between
fee-for-departure carriers, maintaining seniority and longevity
? Mutual assistance to reduce the impact of industry consolidation
? Increasing unity across carriers to improve collective bargaining strength

The Fee for Departure Working Group held a summit in March 2008 and another meeting in May. Prior
to the Board of Directors meeting in October, the Working Group met again, with more than 100 elected representatives from 14 carriers present to share in the discussion. At the October meeting, the Working Group revised its strategic plan to assist carriers heading into negotiations in 2009. The Working Group also hosts monthly conference calls between the MEC leadership of each pilot group.

Capt. Tom Wychor (Mesaba), one of the organizers of the first Fee for Departure Summit, summarized
the goals of the Working Group accordingly: “As members of the industry, we are working toward a
long-term goal. And that goal is to work within airline brands and across corporate lines to create
harmonized contract standards and pilot migration mechanisms that would allow pilots’ longevity and
seniority to follow their flying.”

OUR Careers OUR Choice OUR Union Within Colgan: Our LEC, MEC, and Committee Structure

ALPA at Colgan will include both elected officers and pilot volunteers. Below is a short overview of what ALPA will look like at Colgan. It is up to us to determine what volunteer committees we need; what is provided here is only a sample of the opportunities available to us as ALPA members.

Local Executive Councils
Your Local Executive Council, or LEC, includes the CA and FO status representatives, as well as an
LEC secretary-treasurer. Your LEC is your direct link to the resources ALPA offers and should be your
first call in the event of any company action against you, or if you have an idea to improve Colgan or the Association.

Master Executive Council
Your Master Executive Council, or MEC, is comprised of all the LEC and elected officers. The MEC is the face of Colgan Air inside ALPA and will participate with the MEC leadership of other carriers in collaborative efforts like the Fee for Departure Working Group.

The MEC also appoints the pilot group’s volunteer committees and guides them in their duties.

Volunteer Committees
We will have many volunteer committees at Colgan, including a Central Air Safety Committee, Hotel
Committee, and Jumpseat Committee. Listed below is a small sample of the most well-known ALPA
committees. If you would like to know more about ALPA committees, please contact an OC member.

Negotiating Committee
The Negotiating Committee represents the pilot group in collective bargaining negotiations with management. The Negotiating Committee is appointed by the MEC, which charges the pilot negotiators with the responsibility of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement that reflects the priorities of the pilot group. ALPA’s Representation Department offers a bargaining conference and a negotiations training seminar for committee members, and our pilot negotiators will be accompanied by an ALPA attorney at all times. They will also be joined by ALPA experts in Economic & Financial Analysis, Retirement &
Insurance, Scheduling, and other professional staff at appropriate times in the negotiations process.

The specific duties of the Negotiating Committee include:

• Reviewing all applicable pilot group contracts in the industry.
• Developing appropriate surveys to evaluate and establish crewmembers’ concerns and objectives for
contract negotiations.
• Reporting contract comparison findings and recommending changes to improve our contract.
• Assisting members in understanding the provisions of their contract.
• Maintaining constant and direct communication with the MEC throughout the negotiations process.
• Making periodic progress reports to the pilot group, consistent with good negotiating practices.

Continued

 

[Nevets]

Scheduling Committee
The Scheduling Committee is the liaison between the pilot group and management in the bid and line
construction process. The Committee works to ensure that the lines built by the company follow the terms of the contract and the FARs, as well as to identify lines that create unsafe working conditions, such as a line that flip-flops between day and night flying.

“The Scheduling Committee coordinates with
management to ensure that lines produced by
the company are lines the pilots want to fly
and are contractually compliant.”
—Cory Tennen, ALPA Economic & Financial
Analysis Department, former Comair captain and Scheduling Committee member

Some of the Scheduling Committee’s duties include:

• Collecting and maintaining data regarding the allocation, assignment, or reduction of crewmember
assignments, trip pairings, reserve assignments, and lines of flying; junior manning; temporary duty
assignments; and schedule changes.
• Verifying daily scheduling practices and assignments to ensure compliance with the collective bargaining agreement.
• Working as an intermediary between the line pilot and the Company on daily scheduling practices.
• Maintaining pilot group knowledge of contract provisions related to scheduling rules.
• Coordinating schedule requirements with company marketing activities to ensure optimum utilization
of pilot time.
• Bringing to the attention of the MEC any suggestion(s) for improvement of bid line construction.

Grievance Committee
The Grievance Committee gathers, investigates, and compiles information regarding members’ grievance complaints. When you believe the company has violated your contractual rights, you should contact the Grievance Committee to bring your case to management. ALPA offers a grievance seminar every year for committee members.

Grievance Committee members engage in many aspects of contract enforcement, including:

• Maintaining grievance files and records in a complete and up-to-date manner.
• Serving as liaison to the ALPA Representation and Legal Departments on all local grievance matters,
and coordinating with them as necessary.
• Ensuring efficiency in processing a grievance or preparing for an arbitration hearing.
• Providing regular written activity reports on current and/or potential grievances to the MEC chairman.

Professional Standards Committee
The Professional Standards Committee maintains the professional standards of the pilot group. This
committee seeks to resolve issues that arise between pilots or that affect the professional standards of the pilot group, such as pilot competence, before management gets involved in the problem. ALPA offers professional standards training through its Engineering and Air Safety and Security and Human Performance Departments.

Members of the Professional Standards Committee:

• Maintain a thorough understanding of company procedures, requirements, and the ALPA Code of Ethics.
• Conduct in-depth investigations of problems referred to the committee and provide a recommended course of action as to the disposition of individual cases.
• Refer professional or ethical problems to the MEC in the event a resolution to a problem cannot be successfully reached at the committee level.
• Hold all interviews, correspondence, and other written material in the strictest of confidence throughout the investigation of a professional standards problem.
• Maintain close contact with the Grievance Committee and MEC chairman.

“As a Contract Compliance Committee member,
it is my job to help pilots enforce their contractual rights. Sometimes that is just making a call to a chief pilot; in other cases, it is helping our ALPA contract administrator prepare for an arbitration hearing.”
—Capt. Chris Grable, ExpressJet
Contract Compliance Committee member

After the Election
After a successful representation election, our work is still only half done to create a functioning, effective volunteer structure and MEC to serve our pilot group and address the concerns that formed the basis for the organizing drive. The first set of initiatives we will take after the election includes:

? Holding a membership drive to enroll all Colgan pilots as ALPA members. Voting ALPA in does not yet make us individual members; all pilots will still need to fill out membership applications. The membership applications will be mailed within a
couple of weeks after the election ends.
? Establish our representation structure, including Local Executive Councils.
? Appoint interim MEC/LEC officers to facilitate the membership drive and begin building relationships within ALPA.
? Following enrollment of a majority of Colgan pilots in ALPA, holding nominations meetings and elections for status representatives.

No pilot will be charged dues during the first 90 days following the election, to allow time to return and process membership applications. In order to attend LEC meetings, vote, or run for a position or
volunteer, you must be an ALPA member.

Following the acceptance of your application, each pilot will immediately gain access to the following individual benefits of ALPA membership (this list is not exhaustive):

? Aeromedical services
? Representation in front of the FAA and other government agencies
? Emergency Incident Response access, i.e., the “Orange Card”
? Right to vote and voice your opinions to your MEC and ALPA officers

It is also important to point out that electing ALPA as our representative will not instantly cure all of our ills. Until we have a contract in place, management still retains some rights to change some of our work rules and employee policies, with the caveat that they must have a reasonable business justification for doing so and not implement the new policy discriminatorily or punitively for voting in a union.

We will work, though, to begin the process of negotiating a collective bargaining contract as soon as possible, especially to negotiate and implement a grievance procedure and start the discussion over
work rules and scheduling policies to improve our quality of life. Our strength at the table and our ability to get things done will reflect the unity we show in the election and following.

We urge you again, if you have not voted, to VOTE. And if you have voted, remind a colleague about the role he or she can play to make Colgan better for all of us.

 

[frieswiththat]

Congratulations, and thank you members of the Organizing Committee for all of your hard work!

 

[Nevets]

XJT MEC Update
December 18, 2008

Colgan Pilots Choose ALPA

The results are in. Colgan pilots have voted in ALPA with 70 percent support! The final list was 449 eligible voters, with 286 in support of ALPA and 27 write-ins for the IBT.

Having the pilots of Colgan join ALPA was important for the Union and was essential to the ExpressJet pilots. Our pilots operate in the same hubs, for the same mainline carrier. This close proximity necessitated a close working relationship that can only be achieved by pilots working under the same banner -- the ALPA banner. The MEC would like to thank all of you who spoke with Colgan pilots on the jumpseat, in the airports or at any of the organizing events. Thanks for all of your work and please spread the word. The next time you see a Colgan pilot, be sure to welcome him/her to the ALPA family.

 

[Snaab]

Thank you members of the Organizing Committee for all of your hard work!

Ditto! Thanks guys!

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Excellent opportunity for Colgan pilots to build career skills that major airline recruiters look for...

Many of the pilots that left my regional were ALPA volunteers. No they didn't wave the ALPA flag at the interview or put union on their resume/application.

However, when you do professional volunteer work it teaches you how to work with others and matures your skillset... Simply put, it is noticeable when you present yourself.

Sure some guys just have the knack, and can turn on the charm in the interview, but why not get in on the new committee structure from the ground up, help your fellow pilots and the ones that will be Colgan pilots, while you help yourself become more marketable to a major... if that is what you desire....

Good luck guys... the support and resources are there, you just need to take the lead....

 

[DX Rick]

Excellent opportunity for Colgan pilots to build career skills that major airline recruiters look for...

Wow, now that you wear an ALPA pin, you're officially a Professional Pilot!

I guess those NetJet, CitationShare and the Chief Pilot of Walt Disney will be upset to hear that they're not Professional Pilots since they're not ALPA.

 

[JoeMerchant]

Excellent opportunity for Colgan pilots to build career skills that major airline recruiters look for...

Many of the pilots that left my regional were ALPA volunteers. No they didn't wave the ALPA flag at the interview or put union on their resume/application.

However, when you do professional volunteer work it teaches you how to work with others and matures your skillset... Simply put, it is noticeable when you present yourself.

Sure some guys just have the knack, and can turn on the charm in the interview, but why not get in on the new committee structure from the ground up, help your fellow pilots and the ones that will be Colgan pilots, while you help yourself become more marketable to a major... if that is what you desire....

Good luck guys... the support and resources are there, you just need to take the lead....

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

 

[DX Rick]

Voting in a union is a way to improve the workplace in the long term, in a slow and measured way. ALPA is no hero.

Yes, it will take a long time to get things going. But be prepared to start paying dues immediately.
That's the only thing that does happen right away.

 

[Nevets]

Yes, it will take a long time to get things going. But be prepared to start paying dues immediately.
That's the only thing that does happen right away.

That is not correct. Didn't you read my post above? It says, "no pilot will be charged dues during the first 90 days following the election, to allow time to return and process membership applications."

 

[N2264J]

Good luck guys... the support and resources are there, you just need to take the lead....

In an ironic ejaculation of bad timing, the Atlas & Polar pilots announced yesterday that they're voting "no confidence" with their feet and leaving ALPA.

Man, it's got to be a hard life for the ALPA cheerleader.

In a representation election for the combined group of Atlas Air and Polar Air Cargo pilots, the Teamsters were selected as their new collective bargaining agents following that organization’s filing of authorization cards and request for an NMB election.

 

[DoinTime]

In an ironic ejaculation of bad timing, the Atlas & Polar pilots announced yesterday that they're voting "no confidence" with their feet and leaving ALPA.

Man, it's got to be a hard life for the ALPA cheerleader.

I think its more fair to say that only the Atlas pilots voted to leave ALPA. Unfortunately, that backstabbing traitor David Bourne poisoned the well over there.

 

[sweptback]

In an ironic ejaculation of bad timing, the Atlas & Polar pilots announced yesterday that they're voting "no confidence" with their feet and leaving ALPA.

Man, it's got to be a hard life for the ALPA cheerleader.

I think it's fair to say that more airline pilot groups have decertified Teamsters than certified them in recent times.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

In an ironic ejaculation of bad timing, the Atlas & Polar pilots announced yesterday that they're voting "no confidence" with their feet and leaving ALPA.

Man, it's got to be a hard life for the ALPA cheerleader.

It sure is.... and it is an easy life being a biased union buster... you just wait for the faults to show up and act like a "whistle blower". Hey look at me folks, look what I found! A union made a mistake!

Any human organization is going to have faults....

Colgan pilots achieved what they set out to do and you show up to crap about the place....

If Colgan pilots are learning one thing from this thread its the fight is both internal and external. It shouldn't be that way, but tools like you make it so....

Thanks for blowing the whistle.....

 

[Scope out RJ's]

In an ironic ejaculation of bad timing, the Atlas & Polar pilots announced yesterday that they're voting "no confidence" with their feet and leaving ALPA.

Speaking of ejaculation.....How are you and JoeMerchant getting along with Dan these days?

Man, it's got to be a hard life for the ALPA cheerleader.

Even harder for the rjdc!

 

[CopilotDoug]

It sure is.... and it is an easy life being a biased union buster... you just wait for the faults to show up and act like a "whistle blower". Hey look at me folks, look what I found! A union made a mistake!

Any human organization is going to have faults....

Colgan pilots achieved what they set out to do and you show to crap about the place....

Thanks for blowing the whistle.....

Rez, in all seriousness, does ALPA point out it's downsides and flaws when courting a prospect pilot group?

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Rez, in all seriousness, does ALPA point out it's downsides and flaws when courting a prospect pilot group?

Yes. I spoke directly with Colgan organizers about the campaign and what the issues were....

In addition,


Quote:

Originally Posted by coolyokeluke
Read "Flying the Line" sometime. Sure it's pro-labor but you might get an understanding of how things were before pilots had any representation.
.

Actually it isn't pro labor. George Hopkins initially wrote The Airline Pilots: A Study in Elite Unionization, 1971. He was asked by ALPA to write Flying the Line Vol. I, 1982. An incredible read with some dry spots. However required for anyone who gives 1.95% of their income.

Hopkins was asked again to write the second part, published in 2000, which included deregulation. You think Lorenzo was bad? Read about EL Cord. Also CR Smith whom AMR has named thier beloved museum after.


With copy of Vol II in hand turn to page XII of the Preface.

Hopkins, the books' author writes




Quote:

JJ O'Donnell [then ALPA's president] asked me to write another history commemorating the unions 50th anniversary. With the understanding that I would give ALPA its history "warts and all," I agreed.

The result was Flying the Line; the First Half Century of the Airline Pilots Association, published in 1982. My interpretation of ALPA's history was not censored. I work for Western Illionis University specifically and for an abstraction called history" generally. Although frankly nervous about the book, O'Donnell understood that prettified "court history" praising the King (so to speak) would be worthless. If pilots were to derive insight from my book, it had to be free to go wherever truth took it.

Hopkins placed his academic career on writing the truth and not being a chump.


Contact your LEC rep and ask for a copy. He might be able to get a complimentary copy. If not what is $10.

Then you can read about how pilots showed up for work, only to be met by an armed guard who escorted them to a company official. This company official handed the pilot both a resignation and an employment application....at a lower wage! (Vol I, chapter 6, page 48)

Coming to work nowadays isn't so bad.


Need more? Read 'When the Airlines Went to War' In this book you will read how Air Line Pilots disregarded thier labor contracts during WWII to 'transport the army and navy' and how the airlines trained Navigators, Pilots and mechanics by the thousands. The required rapid mobilzation of America's Air Power would have never happened if it wasn't for the US Airlines.

You'll earn a new respect for Airports like LGA and DCA, commonly refered to as sh1tholes by the ignorant. LGA and DCA have more history, culture and character than most of us....

Pride in being an Air Line Pilot is not popular right now, but you'll find it in these books...

 

[DX Rick]

Yes. I spoke directly with Colgan organizers about the campaign and what the issues were....

What all did you tell them? and did you make sure they relayed the same exact message to the pilot group? Or why not just tell the pilots yourself, just to make sure you're giving them all the honest facts about ALPA. You do want them to make an educated decision, right?

 

[N2264J]

It sure is....and it is an easy life being a biased union buster...

Me? Union buster? I think you may be overstating my awesome powers. I just got the same Email ALPA wired to the other 53,000 pilots so it's not exactly a secret.

No hyperbolic, hysterical Rez, I'm just some guy on an anonymous webboard. ALPA is doing this to itself.

 

[Nevets]

What all did you tell them? and did you make sure they relayed the same exact message to the pilot group? Or why not just tell the pilots yourself, just to make sure you're giving them all the honest facts about ALPA. You do want them to make an educated decision, right?

The downside to ALPA or any union is that its run by humans. That is why people say that a union is only as good as its membership. Unfortunately, this is why internal organization is always needed.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Me? Union buster? I think you may be overstating my awesome powers. I just got the same Email ALPA wired to the other 53,000 pilots so it's not exactly a secret.

No hyperbolic, hysterical Rez, I'm just some guy on an anonymous webboard. ALPA is doing this to itself.

awww don't be so modest... you are an internal union buster.....

Got RJDC?

That is like a scab saying.... who me? I am just trying to feed my family.....

 

[Scope out RJ's]

Me? Union buster?

Naah, not you, you're the other word, the one that rhymes with blab!

I think you may be overstating my awesome powers. I just got the same Email ALPA wired to the other 53,000 pilots so it's not exactly a secret.

After all.........You are the G.D. captain!:laugh:

No hyperbolic, hysterical Rez, I'm just some guy on an anonymous webboard. ALPA is doing this to itself.

Its amazing how you chicken ******************** rjdc guys hide behind your keyboard typing your continued propoganda.

 

[AftCG182]

Congrats! The Colgan pilot group might just start to get treated as well as you all deserve. Enjoy!

Dave (Fmr. Colgan Beech guy)

 

[suupah]

I thought this thread was about Colgan

 

[Nevets]

Left? Hardly. I'm one of the many AirTran pilots that are currently working to bring ALPA to AirTran. That tells you how much I believe in ALPA.

Speaking of which, I just read this:

ALPA Strongly Supports Merger with NPA
On December 16, ALPA’s Executive Council unanimously passed a resolution underscoring its wholehearted support for beginning work toward a merger agreement with the National Pilots Association (NPA), which represents the pilots at AirTran. ALPA leaders also met recently with the NPA Board of Directors and made a presentation regarding the benefits of membership in and representation by an international union devoted solely to pilots’ issues. “We appreciated the opportunity to meet with the National Pilots Association Board and ALPA is eager to begin working together with them toward a merger agreement,” said ALPA President Capt. John Prater. “If they elect to join ALPA, AirTran pilots would continue to make the decisions on the issues that affect them, but they would also gain access to unmatched resources and decades of experience in collective bargaining, contract enforcement, aviation safety, and many other aspects of the piloting profession.”
On December 12, the NPA board of Directors passed a resolution stating “the NPA BOD endorses a merger with ALPA, provided a favorable merger agreement is reached between ALPA and the NPA.” The NPA Board is also working with ALPA to arrange a series of road shows in January to provide an opportunity for AirTran pilots to learn more about the Association. The road shows will highlight the critical services ALPA provides to its members in the areas of collective bargaining and contract enforcement, aviation safety and security, economic and financial analysis, Aeromedical, government affairs, union administration, strategic planning, and retirement and insurance. NPA seeks a merger agreement in January.

In an ironic ejaculation of bad timing, the Atlas & Polar pilots announced yesterday that they're voting "no confidence" with their feet and leaving ALPA.

Man, it's got to be a hard life for the ALPA cheerleader.

Speaking of which, I just read this as well:

Atlas/Polar Leave ALPA
In a representation election for the combined group of Atlas Air and Polar Air Cargo pilots, the Teamsters were selected as their new collective bargaining agents following that organization’s filing of authorization cards and request for an NMB election. This result was not unexpected based on the contentious merger of the two carriers, the Polar Air Cargo strike in 2005—during and following which the two groups substantially disagreed on a number of issues—and the general pilot disunity that resulted. Regrettably, the IBT took advantage of such internal disputes and separated the Atlas and Polar crewmembers from their ALPA colleagues and a union with extensive professional resources, services, expertise, and influence focused solely on issues that affect the piloting profession. Unfortunately, pilots are less than 1 percent of the Teamster membership and have little influence in the general or strategic direction of that union, allocation of its resources, and the dedication of staff to pilot issues compared to the influence wielded by truck drivers and workers in warehouses, dairies, bakeries, breweries, food service, and laundries who dominate that union’s membership.
The election of ALPA by the pilots at Colgan—where the IBT also sought representation rights and where the IBT received less than 10 percent of the votes; the endorsement of ALPA rather than the Teamsters by the NPA Board; and the past decertification of the IBT at NetJets, UPS, ATA, and Evergreen shows that Teamster election rhetoric and promises typically give way to representation that does not benefit flight deck crewmembers.
We regret that ALPA insurance products, financial support, training programs, peer interaction, professional staff resources, and status and influence as the largest pilot union in the world will no longer be available to Atlas and Polar crewmembers. We look forward to the day when ALPA can again provide that support to them via membership in our union, which also provides them membership within the IFALPA structure, as Polar and Atlas crewmembers spend the majority of their time flying outside of this country.


I wonder if the IBT's airline division engineering and air safety or the IBT's airline division government affairs staff met with the Obama transition team? Or if the unionized pilots of [insert non-union carrier here] met with the Obama transition team on anything?

Obama Transition Team Consults ALPA on Aviation Security Priorities
On Thursday, ALPA president Capt. John Prater, together with ALPA Engineering and Air Safety and Government Affairs staff, discussed the Association’s aviation security priorities with a transition team representing the incoming Obama administration. Topics included pilot screening and access (i.e., CrewPASS), secondary barriers, FFDO program requirements, all-cargo domain security, and Transportation Security Administration performance. In addition to ALPA white papers on most of these subjects, ALPA representatives provided the transition team with detailed feedback on each issue. ALPA pilot leaders believe the incoming administration’s interest in pilots’ views bodes well for our future working relationship.

 

[frieswiththat]

I'm not necessarily a rah rah rah union guy, but I definitely see the benefit in having ALPA as a representation body. They specialize in aviation affairs, unlike IBT. No union is the end-all fix for all of our problems at the regional level, but we need to start somewhere.

Congratulations to all my bretheren and sisteren(?) at Colgan for a successful vote!

 

[Regul8r]

I wonder if the IBT's airline division engineering and air safety or the IBT's airline division government affairs staff met with the Obama transition team? Or if the unionized pilots of [insert non-union carrier here] met with the Obama transition team on anything?

...the implication that this will produce anything meaningful to pilots besides lip service is misleading.

 

[Nevets]

...the implication that this will produce anything meaningful to pilots besides lip service is misleading.

And how will not meeting with government officials benefit the safety of the profession? Even with a republican administration and congress in the past, ALPA has been able to get a lot of safety/security related legislation passed. And hence, I don't understand your cynicism on this issue.

 

[CopilotDoug]

You think Lorenzo was bad? Read about EL Cord. Also CR Smith whom AMR has named thier beloved museum after...

...Then you can read about how pilots showed up for work, only to be met by an armed guard who escorted them to a company official. This company official handed the pilot both a resignation and an employment application....at a lower wage! (Vol I, chapter 6, page 48)

Coming to work nowadays isn't so bad.


Need more? Read 'When the Airlines Went to War' In this book you will read how Air Line Pilots disregarded thier labor contracts during WWII to 'transport the army and navy' and how the airlines trained Navigators, Pilots and mechanics by the thousands. The required rapid mobilzation of America's Air Power would have never happened if it wasn't for the US Airlines.

You'll earn a new respect for Airports like LGA and DCA, commonly refered to as sh1tholes by the ignorant. LGA and DCA have more history, culture and character than most of us....

Pride in being an Air Line Pilot is not popular right now, but you'll find it in these books...

Does hearkening back to the days of yore for the sake of fanciful sentimentalization really apply in todays arena? True, we can't forget histories lessons, but what similarities do the first generation pilots share with today's cockpit manager? Being one of the fortunate mail pilots to survive, my Grandfather forgot more about flying then I'll ever know. Does today's iPod listening, Back Pack wearing "pilot" really appreciate the sacrifices made by their predecessors when they're inside a heated RJ cockpit plugging numbers into the FMS with one hand while holding a Starbucks in the other?

 

[DX Rick]

Contact your LEC rep and ask for a copy. He might be able to get a complimentary copy. If not what is $10.

Then you can read about how pilots showed up for work, only to be met by an armed guard who escorted them to a company official. This company official handed the pilot both a resignation and an employment application....at a lower wage! (Vol I, chapter 6, page 48)

Coming to work nowadays isn't so bad.


Need more? Read 'When the Airlines Went to War' In this book you will read how Air Line Pilots disregarded thier labor contracts during WWII to 'transport the army and navy' and how the airlines trained Navigators, Pilots and mechanics by the thousands. The required rapid mobilzation of America's Air Power would have never happened if it wasn't for the US Airlines.

You'll earn a new respect for Airports like LGA and DCA, commonly refered to as sh1tholes by the ignorant. LGA and DCA have more history, culture and character than most of us....

Pride in being an Air Line Pilot is not popular right now, but you'll find it in these books...

Does ALPA represent the average line pilot like they did in the past?
Many, many pilots will tell you NO!