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In This Issue:

ALPA & European Airline Workers Storm Oslo to Oppose NAI
No Thanks to Walmarting the Airline Industry
Jazz Reelects MEC Officers for Two-Year Term
ALPA Refutes Myth of U.S. Pilot Shortage
In Their Own Words: The Tuskegee Airmen
District Advocacy Web Training Dates
IYE Offers Teens Memorable Summer
News on the Net
 

ALPA & European Airline Workers Storm Oslo to Oppose NAI

Capt. Lee Moak, ALPA president, (ALPA) joined airline industry employees from across Europe and North America in Oslo, Norway, this week to make clear their collective, resolute opposition to Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) bid to dodge Norway’s labor laws. NAI’s plan contradicts the U.S.-EU air services agreement allowing the company to gain an unfair economic advantage in competing against other European and U.S. airlines for international passengers’ business. Read ALPA’s statement.

During ALPA’s news conference on Wednesday attended by a dozen news media outlets, Capt. Moak, along with Nico Vorbooch, president of the European Cockpit Association, and Ed Wytkind, president of the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, each reiterated their adamant opposition to the NAI scheme and called for its immediate rejection.

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No Thanks to Walmarting the Airline Industry

ALPA leaders just concluded a remarkable meeting in Oslo, Norway, with our labor counterparts in Europe to accelerate a campaign against flag-of-convenience airlines that seek to scour the globe for low labor standards and lax rules and regulations. We gathered in Norway to make the case against Norwegian Air International (NAI), which has designs on expanding service in Europe and to the United States using cockpit and cabin crew based in Thailand and covered under the labor laws of Singapore.

Read more.

Jazz Reelects MEC Officers for Two-Year Term

At their recent meeting in Victoria, B.C., the JAZ MEC reelected by acclamation captains Claude Buraglia, Terry McTeer, Chris Lohse, and Georges Dawood as chairman, vice chairman, secretary, and treasurer, respectively. The MEC Executive will serve until 2016 and will help steer the pilot group through their upcoming negotiations in 2015, as well as the current shifts in domiciles. Jazz Aviation is the second-largest employer of pilots in Canada with more than 1,400 pilots flying to 82 destinations in Canada and the United States.

ALPA Refutes Myth of U.S. Pilot Shortage

The thousands of airline pilots who are furloughed or working overseas when they would prefer to fly for a U.S. airline and live in this country makes it clear that no shortage of trained and qualified airline pilots currently exists in the United States, according to the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA).

“There may be a shortage of qualified pilots who are willing to fly for U.S. airlines because of the industry’s recent history of instability, poor pay, and benefits,” said Capt. Lee Moak, president of ALPA, “But thousands of highly qualified and experienced U.S. airline pilots are either furloughed or working overseas and eager to return to U.S airline cockpits—under the right conditions.”

Read the full press release.

In Their Own Words: The Tuskegee Airmen

Black pilots who served in World War II paved the way for racial integration of the U.S. military and, eventually, U.S. airlines. Read all about the Tuskegee Airmen, along with “What you Really Need to Know about Sleep Apnea” and how the Air Wisconsin MEC prepared its pilots for Part 117, in the February issue of Air Line Pilot coming to your mailbox soon!

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District Advocacy Web Training Dates

The first district advocacy web trainings of 2014 have been scheduled! We are looking for volunteers who are interested in promoting ALPA’s legislative agenda and want to serve as pilot partisan representatives to their local congressional office. Volunteers should be willing to schedule and lead in-district advocacy visits with their members of Congress. The webinar lasts approximately one hour and will train participants to become effective District Advocates. Topics will include the structure of ALPA’s grassroots program, how to set up and conduct local congressional visits, and a briefing on current pilot partisan legislative issues.

Interested? E-mail Carly.Rhyne@alpa.org to sign up for one of these sessions:

Friday, February 7, 1200 EST
Wednesday, February 12, 1500 EST
Friday, February 14, 1200 EST

IYE Offers Teens Memorable Summer

Do you want your teen to travel abroad, learn about a new culture, further his or her foreign language skills, and have the experience of a lifetime? Teens of airline families can make this dream a reality with the help of International Youth Exchange (IYE), an innovative program that has matched more than 4,500 teens during the past 22 years. IYE connects teens, ages 14–19, with similarly aged youth in another country. The teens spend two weeks in each other’s homes, usually over summer break. Many times the exchange results in a lifelong friendship.

IYE has matched teens in a number of countries, including Australia (limited exchanges), Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. To learn more about IYE, visit www.intlyouth.org or contact retired Delta Air Lines staff member Camille Wheeler at cwheeler@intlyouth.org.

News on the Net

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