CP intersyndical – Taxation du transport aérien : un risque mortel pour l’emploi en France

A l’annonce de la volonté du gouvernement de taxer massivement le secteur aérien pour prélever 1 milliard d’euros supplémentaires, toutes les organisations syndicales représentatives du secteur se sont constituées en intersyndicale pour s’opposer, ensemble, contre toute hausse de ces taxations. La taxation des billets d’avion voulue par le gouvernement, à un niveau massif, dans un dispositif mal calibré, au périmètre non adapté, va menacer directement les milliers d'emplois du transport aérien français (...)

ECA Conference Statement: 2022 – A summer of disruptions

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 (...)

Press release Flying to and over Ukraine: European response again inconsistent

25 February 2022 - The lack of clarity, coordination and guidance to pilots about overflying and flying to Ukraine at times of a developing serious military conflict is a great concern. Despite two disastrous events in the recent past – the MH17 and PS752 – pilots (and airline passengers) were still facing diverging airline decisions, and reliance on the decision-making capabilities of the conflict-stressed state to restrict its airspace. The designated aim of the European States to improve the risk assessment by better information exchange and coordinating the required measures has been unsuccessful.

Press release from IFALPA Member Association, ALPA Canada

10 February 2022 - Tim Perry, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA) Canada, issued the following statement of support today after the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) declared a national boycott of Scandinavian Airlines (SAS). “On behalf of the 6,000 ALPA Canada members, we stand unwaveringly behind the SAS pilots. Due to the pandemic, SAS management laid off 560 pilots [40 percent of the workforce]. Last September, the airline management informed its remaining employees that new companies were being established [“SAS Connect” and “SAS Link”].