[toomuchtodo]

> The key is: you must make enough profit to justify dedicating engineering and legal techniques to defend your scraping.

It also works if you have philanthropic, non profit, or unconventional backing to pay for these defensive resources. If this app is providing substantial benefits to the AA crew around scheduling and QoL, their union might consider providing some backstop/support.

https://www.apfa.org/

[Kalium]

If memory serves, FA unions often use seniority-oriented contracts. The more senior members will tend to be more active and better-represented among union leadership. Reserve members are often more junior.

Putting on my cynical prick hat for a moment, I would guess the union as an institution is far more willing to throw the app-oriented concerns of the junior members under the bus than the health care and pension concerns of the senior ones.