The letter has a positive, reconciliatory tone, so that is good even though it is clearly skewed to the East's position. That is to be expected, of course.
I agree that this changes very little in the present time.
I must take great issue with this line, as someone intimately familiar with the AAA pilot group for over a decade. -
The sins of ALPA that were wrought upon the East pilots happened to our former America West pilots too.
Who exactly is ALPA? An evil terrorist organization? A massive corporate conglomerate?
No, it is the pilots themselves! "We have met the enemy, and it is us!" Pogo
The AAA pilot group has been their own worst enemy since I have been involved (or subjected to) with their leadership.
Parity + 1% for what is essentially a regional airline, killed the golden goose.
Wide open floodgates to "affiliate" carriers (MESA, etc.) leading to decimation of their jobs. 3/5th of all flights under US Airways banner are now non-mainline flights.
Refusal to permit the WO-whorely owned carriers to operate RJ or large turboprop AC, resulting in less control and less profit as well as no leverage or strength in numbers.
Refusal negotiate a flow thru (preventing a flowback and avoiding years of unemployment for their mainline members).
There is much more sordid, misguided history. I hope the gentlemenses @ USAPA can begin to right the ship, but it will never bear fruit until the Nicolau award is resolved.
Perhaps the current USAPA officers and volunteers are not the same mustachioed monsters of career destruction, but sitting idly by while your leaders run amok and run your career into the weeds is hardly an excuse. Aside from owning the election results, a pilot group has many options to affect change from within.
