Safety Bulletin IFALPA: Update – ATS Not Available in Kabul FIR
This Safety Bulletin represents a rapidly changing situation, updates may be published quickly. The version will be indicated in the numbering of the paper, this is the second version of the bulletin, originally published 17 August 2021 (...)
Safety Bulletin IFALPA: ATS Not Available in Kabul FIR
This Safety Bulletin represents a rapidly changing situation, updates may be published quickly. The version will be indicated in the numbering of the paper (...)
ECA POSITION PAPER : Reduced crew ops concepts
ECA POSITION PAPER : Reduced crew ops concepts : The Human and the concepts of Extended Minimum Crew Operations (eMCO) and Single Pilot Operations (SiPO)
Joint Safety Bulletin from IATA, CANSO, IFATCA, IFALPA : Mitigating Human Factors Hazards
A joint publication with IATA, CANSO, and IFATCA on Human Factors Hazards in the context of the operating environment during and post COVID-19. This joint bulletin is a result of the webinar series Safely Navigating the Industry Recovery (...)
Safety Bulletin IFALPA: Ninoy Aquino International Airport (MNL), the Philippines
This IATA Operations Notice alerts airlines of the ongoing risk to aircraft operations at MNL due to unaddressed deficiencies on the airfield. NAIA have implemented initiatives to address the deficiencies, however, current airline safety reports indicate ongoing issues such as surface conditions, charting, signage, marking and lighting (...)
Position Paper IFALPA: Fatigue Risk Management Systems (FRMS) Overview & Guidance
In July 2011, ICAO, IATA, and IFALPA developed and co-branded the first edition of the Fatigue Risk Management Systems (FRMS) Implementation Guide for Operators. This guidance has been adopted around the world as a successful path to implement an FRMS (...)
Brèves internationales du SNPL France ALPA – Mai – Juin 2021
Press Release: E4FC calls on the European Commission to safeguard fair competition in the EU-Qatar Air Transport Agreement
Today the Council of the EU adopted the signature of the comprehensive air transport agreement between the European Union and the State of Qatar. Now that the agreement is signed, Europeans for Fair Competition (E4FC) would like to point out that the parties will need to deliver on the comprehensive fair competition provision, which includes commitments on transparency and allows for safeguard measures in case of breach. Therefore, E4FC calls on the Commission from the outset to take the necessary steps to ensure a proper and effective implementation of this provision and to safeguard fair competition (...)
Position Paper IFALPA: Interval Management
Interval Management (IM) is an Airborne Surveillance Application (ASA) and provides new means of managing traffic flows and spacing of aircraft based on specific ground and airborne capabilities. It allows the flight crew of a suitably equipped aircraft (so called “IM aircraft”) to achieve and/or maintain an assigned spacing in respect to a designated preceding aircraft, called the “target aircraft” (...)
Position Paper IFALPA: CAVS-CDTI Assisted Visual Separation
CAVS is an Airborne Surveillance Application (ASA) to assist pilots in maintaining own separation from a preceding aircraft during successive visual approach procedures by showing its position and additional data on a cockpit display. The data of the preceding aircraft is derived from ADS-B Out, received by the succeeding aircraft via ADS-B In and presented to the crew on a Cockpit Display of Traffic Information (CDTI) which can be integrated in the usual navigation displays (...)