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November 3, 2011 |
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ALPA Makes Senate Hearing Security Recommendations |
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Capt. Lee Moak,
president of the Air
Line Pilots Association,
Int’l, wrote to members
of the Senate Homeland
Security and Government
Affairs Committee,
outlining ALPA aviation
security priorities the
committee must consider
during its Nov. 2
hearing titled Ten
Years After 9/11: The
Next Wave in Aviation
Security.
The letter calls for
movement toward a
threat-based approach to
airport passenger
screening; adequate
funding for the Federal
Flight Deck Officer
Program; the widespread
use of cockpit secondary
barriers; improved
communications and a
clearly defined,
prioritized plan to
control the national
airspace during
terrorist attacks and
other threats;
improvements in
all-cargo airline
security; and making the
act of knowingly shining
a laser in an aircraft
cockpit a federal
offence.
Read Moak’s letter.
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FedEx Pilots Implement ASAP After Decades of Work |
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After
decades of effort by FDX
volunteers and ALPA
staff, the pilots of
FedEx have an Aviation
Safety Action Program
(ASAP) on their
property. Earlier this
year, the FedEx pilots
voted to ratify a new
collective bargaining
agreement. A major
improvement in the new
CBA was the
implementation of ASAP.
“To say that this is
an important safety step
at FedEx is truly an
understatement,” said
FDX MEC chairman Capt.
Scott Stratton. “The
implementation of this
safety program is owed
to the hard work of our
dedicated volunteers and
staff and I am honored
to represent the FedEx
pilots.”
As of Wednesday, Nov.
2, the FedEx pilots join
many other properties
and now enjoy the
advantages of ASAP
protections from
certificate enforcement
actions and company
discipline when their
ASAP reports are
accepted by the FAA
Event Review Committee.
In return for these
protections, crewmembers
will be self-reporting
safety events in which
they are involved.
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The Known Crewmember
(KCM) program, which is
jointly sponsored by
ALPA and the Air
Transport Association,
is now operational at
all of the seven
airports where it is
being tested (i.e., ORD,
MIA, SEA, PHX, MSP, IAD,
and BOS) and the system
is working well at each
location. More than
2,400 pilots, who fly
for 28 participant
airlines, are being
cleared through KCM
access points at these
airports each day.
Since the program
began on Aug. 9, pilots
have used KCM entry
points more than 80,000
times. The
Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) is
analyzing performance
metrics associated with
this program and will
render a decision about
nationwide expansion no
later than January 2012.
For ongoing KCM updates,
please see
www.knowncrewmember.org.
Also, ALPA is seeking
member feedback
regarding the Known
Crewmember program.
Please go to
www.alpa.org/survey
to provide us with
comments about your KCM
experience.
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ALPA Participates in Flight Safety Foundation Seminar |
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ALPA
safety representatives
participated in the 64th
annual International
Aviation Safety
Symposium this week in
Singapore. Safety
professionals from
around the world gather
annually for the event
to exchange ideas on the
advancement of safety
initiatives.
This week’s
conference highlighted
fatigue management
strategies, runway
excursion risk
mitigations, pilot
training issues,
effective use of safety
data, and functional
check flight issues. In
addition, experts
discussed ongoing safety
programs in many
countries and progress
toward identifying and
addressing top aviation
safety issues.
ALPA Aviation Safety
chair Capt. Charles
Hogeman (UAL) presented
a paper on enhancing
pilot training with
safety data in which he
highlighted the value of
significant “single
event” data in
identifying potential
changes to airline
training programs.
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Stay connected with your
union, your profession,
and your industry by
reading Air Line
Pilot magazine and
watching monthly
episodes of The
FlightDeck.
Read United Capt.
Greg Roberts’s
recommendations for
useful smartphone apps
on page 26 of the
November issue of Air
Line Pilot magazine.
On the tenth installment
of
The
FlightDeck,
learn how Emirates
Airlines is expanding
its reach into the
United States.
Remember that both Air Line Pilot
and The FlightDeck
can also be accessed
from the members-only
portion of the ALPA
website at
www.alpa.org.
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• According to Aviation Today, US Airways has announced plans to move its
call centers back to the United States and hire 400 workers to staff the
centers. Read more.
• The Hill says House Democrats criticized the TSA for pushing back a
deadline for inspecting all air cargo.
Read more.
• The New York Times reports that many U.S. carriers now offer mobile
boarding passes at airports across the country, a paperless move pioneered by
Continental Airlines in 2007.
Read more.
• Canadian Business indicates the cost of flying took off last year,
even excluding additional fees and charges, as Canada’s main airlines hiked
average fares by 5.3 percent.
Read more.
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Section 35 Part 1(J) of the ALPA Administrative Manual states, “Each member
shall be issued a membership card every four years.”
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Feedback & E-mail Address Changes |
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what information needs to be updated. Please note that it is not sufficient
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the ALPA Membership Department in Herndon. Can’t remember your member number
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