Jim, you cannot say this for certainty. You cannot pin USAPA to the NIC as the ONE reason. It was the final straw for many of us. I was not there when it was "dreamed up." I really cannot agree that the sole reason was to evade NIC. Maybe it was for some, but you must agree that is your opinion, and conjecture. My reasoning was this- if ALPA remained, their promise of separate ops was going to be broken. We would have woken up one morning, being told of why our ALPA leadership had no choice other than to implement NIC. It happened with the pension, and they were NOT getting another shot at me personally. They had to go before they got to take the shot. Your statement "As nic4us said,USAPA was formed to evade the Nic award" is opinion, and should be taken as such, not a factual statement.