August 6, 2010 - Capt. John Prater, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA), issued the following statement in support of the pilots of Mexicana Airlines, who are represented by Asociación Sindical de Pilotos Aviadores (ASPA) and are in critical contract negotiations with their management. Mexicana de Aviación filed for bankruptcy protection in both Mexico and the United States, and indefinitely suspended ticket sales on Wednesday.

“The nearly 53,000 members of the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l, stand firmly behind the ASPA pilots of Mexicana Airlines in their efforts to secure fair wages and working conditions amid their carrier’s recent bankruptcy declaration. Once again, airline management has chosen to use bankruptcy laws to leverage brutal employee concessions to counterbalance its own short-sighted practices.”