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...under heavy criticism for shooting out the tires. Director Gray even admitted that his judgments "were not necessarily perfect." The Air Line Pilots Association was outraged-especially since it was obvious that Southern had been careless in allowing on its plane three men who fit the classic skyjacker "profile." ALPA President J.J. O'Donnell threatened to call a nationwide pilots' strike if stringent anti-skyjacking measures are not enforced. Something more has to be done. There have been 387 skyjacking attempts worldwide since the first one in 1930; of those, about two dozen, all of them recent, have...
...descending two steps in the testing room. Although such tests have become routine additions to many physical examinations, the Air Line Pilots Association, which represents 31,000 pilots, objects to the proposal. One of its arguments is that the two-step test could produce misleading results. In fact, ALPA has even made plans to strike the airlines if such testing is made part of the FAA physical...
...actually delivers pie in the sky. The 31,000 members of the Air Line Pilots Association earn an average of $33,250 a year-it goes up to $59,000 for some captains on transatlantic runs-for working 60 to 85 hours a month. No less generous with themselves, ALPA captains collect flight pay of around $40 per hour for time that they spend on association business; last year union officers managed to spend $1,100,000 on "meals, travel and lodging." Their power matches their pay. The union can put out of business any airline that it chooses...
Since Nov. 12, ALPA has been on strike against Mohawk Airlines of Utica, N.Y., grounding the line's short-haul flights to 38 mainly Northern and Eastern airports. Money is only one of the issues. Mohawk has offered to pay its captains-who now average $2,625 per month-a monthly wage of $2,985 by 1972. The union wants an average $3,100 per month immediately, to bring the pay of Mohawk pilots up to the scale paid by larger trunk lines. Beyond that, ALPA insists that Mohawk meet no fewer than 80 demands-from shorter hours...
Mohawk has sought to cope by trimming its schedules and turning over lightly traveled routes to the largely nonunionized air taxi lines, the so-called "third-level carriers." The union is worried about the trend, and estimates, perhaps with some exaggeration, that 1,000 ALPA jobs have been lost through such transfers. But as Piedmont Airlines President Tom Davis puts it, "ALPA itself is responsible for pricing us out of the small-town market. We can't afford to take those crews in those jets into the smaller towns, so we are turning them over to the third-level...