ALPA Offers to Return $53 Million in Dues Surplus to Members
At the Association’s May Executive Council meeting, the council voted to offer to return a portion of pilots’ dues obligation for 2025 and set the total offered return amount at $53 million. This is the third consecutive year in which ALPA has offered to return dues.
In an April 19, 2024, From the President message to all members, Capt. Jason Ambrosi, the Association’s president, outlined the circumstances that led to the first offer. At the union’s Executive Council meeting hosted by the Jazz Aviation Master Executive Council (MEC) in Toronto, Ont., with an agenda of more than 50 items, the governing body reviewed ALPA’s 2023 revenue gains.
“After a thorough review of our finances by the Structure, Services, and Finance Review [SSAFR] Committee, the Executive Council approved returning $50 million (C$69 million) in surplus funds to our members from ALPA national,” he said.
“This first-of-its-kind across-the-board dues return represents nearly 30% of your dues that went to national, and almost 16% of total dues,” Ambrosi observed. “Because we never forget that this is a pilot-led organization, we’re constantly working to provide the highest level of services and resources while balancing responsible use of your dues dollars, and your ALPA membership will always work as an investment in strengthening the future of your career—and our profession.”
On May 7, 2025, Ambrosi announced a second offer to return member dues. “Through our success both at the negotiating table and by being fiscally responsible with our members’ dues dollars, we’re in the position to offer to return dues this year after doing it for the first time in our history last year.
“Money back in the bank accounts of our members is one of the most tangible ways we exhibit the strength and smarts of our union” and the success that’s been built together.
The second revenue surplus was also thanks in large part to the union’s organizing efforts and airline mergers and growth, which added approximately 13,000 new ALPA members.
Capt. Wes Clapper, the Association’s vice president–finance/treasurer, acknowledged the efforts of the SSAFR Committee, which he chairs, for its economic recommendations and savvy business advice. At the union’s recent Executive Board meeting on May 6, he remarked, “You’ve seen literally dozens of resolutions over the past three years from this committee, and I’m proud to look back on the work that we’ve done and the improvements we’ve made to ALPA’s financial practices and policies.”
During that same meeting, Ambrosi reported on the third offer to return dues, this time for $53 million. “Since we made the historic decision to offer to return dues two years ago, we’ll have returned over $150 million to our members,” he noted.
“We also recognized that collecting dues just to return them isn’t the most efficient way to serve our members,” Ambrosi said, but “these offers to return dues identified something important: We have a sufficient surplus to operate, to grow, and to reduce our dues rate.”
Consequently, at its fall meeting the Board of Directors will vote on whether to reduce the current dues rate from 1.85 to 1.55%. This kind of operating accountability and transparency are a testament to ALPA’s long-standing motto that the union is comprised of pilots serving pilots.
ALPA Members: Accept Your Offer
The dues return offer is available to everyone who was obligated to pay dues during the 2025 calendar year. To deliver this offer, ALPA must have your complete, up-to-date information.
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