I just had a reader send me this note:

“Ahwwww, now you’re bashing a pilot’s favorite newspaper and with your retired WN brother haven’t you heard this one?

How do you get an airline pilot to come out of his hotel room?

You put a free newspaper at his door!

If you don’t get a chuckle out of that your brother will.

So if UAL ALPA had run it in the Wall Street Journal then no pilot at UAL would have seen it unless they were foraging for newspapers in the seat backs after the passengers had deplaned.  How many Motel 6s, Days Inn or other flop houses that we have been reduced to staying at do you find the WSJ for free?”

Exactly.

So why did the United pilots run the ad in the first place? So other non-United pilots would see it?  That is certainly preaching to the choir, dontcha think?

And as far as United pilots are concerned, isn’t that what internal ALPA communications are for?

Thanks for the note!

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