The five founding pilots of APA, Nick O'Connell, Paul Atkins, Bob Guba, Joe Garvey, and Dick Lyons, were expelled for life from ALPA.

It did so by altering the AmericanConnection IATA code to AX for flights operated by Chautauqua and Trans States.

The issue was settled in 2007 when a federal arbitrator ordered American to pay $23 million to APA members for violating the scope clause.

[citation needed] The merger of American and US Airways resulted in the carriers' pilot labor organizations to be combined.

[2] The protagonist organization that opposed USAPA, known as America West Airlines Pilots Protective Alliance (AWAPPA), was dissolved.