Pilots from ECA take a stand against Single Pilot flights: “One Means None”
July 2024 - European planes could be operating with only one pilot at the controls as soon as 2027, if moves by aircraft manufacturers are successful. To take a stand against this, European pilots led by the European Cockpit Association (ECA) have launched a new website: OneMeansNone.eu. The platform aims to inform passengers about the significant safety risks associated with reducing crew from two pilots to one.
Summer Disruption Checklist – ‘Defensive Flying’- Summer 2023
6 juillet 2023 - This summer disruption checklist is not intended to supersede or replace individual company procedures and should be seen as an additional awareness tool to ensure safe, reliant, and efficient flight operations. It should also be seen as complementary to the EASA Safety Information Bulletin (SIB – 2023-05) and related content.
Joint Position Paper IFALPA-ECA-IFATCA: Unauthorized Flying of Drones Near Airports
27 April 2023 - Drones have recently become more affordable to the public as their performance in terms of height, speed, and distance has greatly improved. Consequently, the hazard posed by the flying of unauthorized drones near airports worldwide has also increased. Available data indicate that the frequency of drone activity, both authorized and unauthorized, in the vicinity of airports continues to rise significantly (...)
Press Release ECA/IFALPA/ALPA : Global Pilot Leaders Unite to Keep Two Pilots on the Flight Deck
27 March 2023 – Leaders of the world’s largest pilot organizations today announced a global coalition to prevent airlines and manufacturers from pushing ahead with plans to remove pilots from the flight deck, a profit-driven scheme that poses a significant safety risk. Pilot representatives from the International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations (IFALPA), the European Cockpit Association (ECA), and Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA) vowed to take collective action to protect the flying public and counter an aggressive corporate-led lobbying campaign targeting regulators around the world, including the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) (...)
Briefing Leaflet ECA: Fuel management
Octobre 2022 - On 30 October 2022 new EASA fuel rules will come into effect (Regulation (EU) 2021/1296 and ED Decision 2022/005/R.). This publication provides you with an overview of the main changes and the consequences for the flight crew. The leaflet also includes a number of points of concerns.
Manual ECA on the Legal Principles of Industrial Relations in the European Union
Octobre 2022 - The Manual on the Legal Principles of Industrial Relations in the European Union is meant as an introduction to the legal framework of the EU and fundamental principles of industrial relations.
ECA Summer Disruption Checklist
8 août 2022 - This Checklist has been compiled by ECA to draw attention to a number of safety-relevant issues that crews are likely to be faced with during a period where the European aviation system is expected to be strained to the maximum. It is not intended to supersede or replace individual company procedures and should be seen as an additional awareness tool to ensure safe, reliant, and efficient flight operations.
ECA Conference Statement: 2022 – A summer of disruptions
23 June 2022 - Years of cost-cutting, social dumping and COVID crisis management are now wreaking havoc in Europe’s aviation. A summer of disruptions, flight cancellations and aircrew fatigue has started and will likely worsen in the coming weeks. This ECA Conference – representing 40.000 European airline pilots – mandates the ECA Executive Board to urge the EU Commission and EASA, national oversight authorities, airline managements and all relevant stakeholders to ensure that (...)
Position paper ECA – Securing a sustainable future for aviation
15 June 2022 - European infrastructure, providing essential connectivity and promoting socio-economic cohesion and timely supply of goods and services. This infrastructure is a public good, part of the wider economy’s backbone, and will continue to play an important role with regards to safely air-connected Europe. For these reasons, ECA is of the firm opinion that aviation must be part of the ‘green’ solution and set the basis now for being part of a safe and sustainable future transport system in Europe (...)
Position Paper: Streaming of Flight Data
9 May 2022 - IFALPA and ECA strongly support initiatives to improve search and rescue operations and the recovery of flight data recorders. However, they believe that the streaming of flight recorder data, other than as needed to track the location of an aircraft in distress, could introduce an unacceptable risk to the integrity of flight safety investigations. This is due to the possibility for such data to be compromised during transmission and storage (...)