Opposition Escalates Against Dangerous Effort to Derail Science-Based Flight- and Duty-Time Regulations
April 21, 2011 - Capt. Lee Moak, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA), issued the following response to the release of National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah A. P. Hersman’s public position opposing the exemption of cargo pilots from science-based flight crew scheduling requirements:

“The Federal Aviation Administration, the airlines, and airline labor have mounted a supreme effort to break through the roadblock that has stalled modernization of flight- and duty-time regulations and minimum rest requirements for airline pilots for more than five decades.”