Originally Posted by captchris

You get the most expensive magazine subscription of your life. "Airline Pilot" or some garbage like that----I just send it straight to the can.

Originally Posted by captchris

You get the most expensive magazine subscription of your life. "Airline Pilot" or some garbage like that----I just send it straight to the can.

Originally Posted by wannabepilot

Propaganda indeed...there was a thread on here that listed the salaries of many of the paid employees of ALPA. I added the salaries of the first 67 people on the list, and the total came to $14,501,725. The average salary for those first 67 people came to $216,443. It looks as if the 1.95% goes a long way towards paying very nice salaries for those lucky enough to become employed at ALPA. There were many more people on the list that was posted, but I didn't want to spend any more time copying numbers into Excel and such (if someone know where that thread is please post the link. I couldn't find it).

One observation I have as an outsider...it says that ALPA gets $105 million dollars in revenue each year. $22 million goes to "flight loss" pay, at least $14 million goes towards salaries. That's $36 million out of $105 million. Let's say there is another $14 million in salaries that I didn't take the time to add. That brings the total to $50 million of expenses out of $105 million in revenue. If I was a member of ALPA, I would be questioning where the other $55 million in revenue is going. That is a lot of money, and after reading the above posts, I cannot see anyway that they could spend $55 million on the remaining items mentioned. Personally, I think they should be making some EXCEPTIONAL progress with regard to the numerous issues that face airline pilots today with $55(+/-) million in the bank. That's just an outsider's opinion.

Originally Posted by SAABaroowski

You know how much I make as a ALPA Rep?????????????, (EWR F/O Rep) Not a DOLLAR, and thats on top of my 30k a year F/O position. Your ignorance is amazing............ I am in meetings with the CPO, as well as answering Phone calls at all hours for F/O's that need help. I can't stand it, someone like you that has no 121 time and you know more about the union then people that live with it everyday.

Originally Posted by wannabepilot

I realize that you don't make a dollar as an ALPA rep, and it's a very honorable that you take the time to do that job on top of your regular flying. As I said, I am an outsider, and I don't pretend to know all the workings of the ALPA. I was simply looking at the numbers. There were dollar figures supplied in the original posting, and I combined those numbers with other numbers that I crunched. The fact is that there is $55 million (a conservative estimate...probable more) that they do not account for in that "release." My point was that if I was an ALPA member, I would like to know where that $55 million (+/-) goes every year. My other point just has to deal with what I read on here. There are no doubt many, many issues facing professional pilots today. If the ALPA has $55 million to play around with, or even a fraction of that, I would think that there would be more progress towards these issues than I have observed as an outsider. Maybe I would see things differently if I was actually flying the line. No need to get your panties in a wad.

Originally Posted by wannabepilot

I realize that you don't make a dollar as an ALPA rep, and it's a very honorable that you take the time to do that job on top of your regular flying. As I said, I am an outsider, and I don't pretend to know all the workings of the ALPA. I was simply looking at the numbers. There were dollar figures supplied in the original posting, and I combined those numbers with other numbers that I crunched. The fact is that there is $55 million (a conservative estimate...probable more) that they do not account for in that "release." My point was that if I was an ALPA member, I would like to know where that $55 million (+/-) goes every year. My other point just has to deal with what I read on here. There are no doubt many, many issues facing professional pilots today. If the ALPA has $55 million to play around with, or even a fraction of that, I would think that there would be more progress towards these issues than I have observed as an outsider. Maybe I would see things differently if I was actually flying the line. No need to get your panties in a wad.

Originally Posted by wannabepilot

Maybe I would see things differently if I was actually flying the line.