{"podcast":{"title":"The Alaska Pilots Podcast","slug":"the-alaska-pilots-podcast-1170050","podcast_index_feed_id":1170050,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/alaskapilots/feed.xml","website_url":"https://alaskapilots.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/4761480/ALA_Podbean_Artwork_-_Profile_5n9wi8.jpg","author":"Alaska MEC","episode_count":96,"summary":"Alaska MEC Podcast. Discussions and interviews with ALPA leaders and committee chairs about issues effecting airline pilots.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T06:18:21.232467+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-alaska-pilots-podcast-1170050"},"episode":{"title":"2025 Mid Year Update","slug":"2025-mid-year-update","published_at":"2025-06-03T22:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-alaska-pilots-podcast-1170050/2025-mid-year-update","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-alaska-pilots-podcast-1170050","url":"https://alaskapilots.podbean.com/e/2025-mid-year-update/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/agauy3mx6bwdj3zn/Pod_finalaste3.mp3","summary":"In this episode, Communication Chair Kyle Johnson sits down with MEC Chair Will McQuillen, Executive Admin Drew Coyle, and Negotiating Committee Chair David Wilhelm. A mid-year State of the Union is the focus for this podcast. There are discussions about the latest Joint/MEC meeting that took place on May 19-21, which leads into topics including JCBA updates, Seniority List Integration processes, hiring and future outlooks. The Surf to Summit tour just launched, which is also talked about in this episode, highlighting the importance of unity as this merger moves forward. https://ala.alpa.org/ https://alahal.alpa.org/","meta_description":"In this episode, Communication Chair Kyle Johnson sits down with MEC Chair Will McQuillen, Executive Admin Drew Coyle, and Negotiating Committee Chair Dav…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2066,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-alaska-pilots-podcast-1170050/episodes/2025-mid-year-update/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-alaska-pilots-podcast-1170050/2025-mid-year-update.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}