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Pilots Welcome U.S. Senate Passage of Ex-Im Bank Reforms

S3399 — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:28:00 GMT

May 15, 2012 - Capt. Lee Moak, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA), issued the following statement today regarding the U.S. Senate’s passage of important reforms to help ensure U.S. industry and workers are not harmed by the Bank’s financing in the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

“Today’s passage by the U.S. Senate of reauthorization for the Export–Import Bank of the United States advances critical reforms to help stop the Bank from using U.S. taxpayers’ money to subsidize state-backed foreign airlines, providing them with an unfair competitive advantage against U.S. airlines that undermines U.S. airline industry jobs. The language in the reauthorization passed today by the Senate moves toward leveling the playing field for U.S. airlines in the global marketplace, fosters U.S. manufacturing, and protects U.S. workers’ jobs. ALPA will continue to fully engage in this issue, and we call on President Obama to swiftly sign this bill into law.”
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ALPA Commends U.S. House Passage of Ex-Im Bank Reforms

S3399 — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:08:00 GMT

May 9, 2012 - Capt. Lee Moak, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA), issued the following statement today regarding the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, which contains important reforms to help ensure U.S. industry and workers are not harmed by the Bank’s financing.

“The bipartisan reauthorization passed today by the U.S. House contains important reforms to change the way the Export-Import Bank of the United States does business, doing more to ensure that its financing decisions do not harm the U.S. airline industry or its workers by using U.S. taxpayers’ money to give foreign airlines an unfair advantage in the global marketplace.”
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ALPA Hails Agreement on Ex-Im Bank Reauthorization

S3165 — Fri, 04 May 2012 20:50:00 GMT

May 4, 2012 - The following statement is from Capt. Lee Moak, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l, on today’s bipartisan agreement on the Export-Import Bank’s reauthorization.

“The bipartisan reforms announced today to aircraft financing by the Export-Import Bank are a first step toward ending worldwide subsidies of widebody aircraft and will help to protect U.S. airline workers from unmerited, subsidized foreign competition. The reforms will also shine some desperately needed light on the Bank’s financing processes.”
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Airline Pilots on U.S. Ex-Im Bank Reauthorization: Key Reforms Vital to Protect U.S. Jobs

S3165 — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:10:00 GMT

April 26, 2012 - As Congress takes up the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA) today urged lawmakers to implement key reforms to protect U.S. airline workers’ jobs in connection with the Bank’s financing of aircraft for foreign airlines.
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ALPA to U.S. House Subcommittee: Raise Airline Industry to One Level of Safety

S3165 — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:59:00 GMT

Safe Skies Act of 2012 Would Protect All Airline Pilots from Fatigue
April 25, 2012 - In testimony before the U.S. House Aviation Subcommittee today, Capt. Sean Cassidy, first vice president and national safety coordinator of the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA), called on Congress to swiftly act to apply new Federal Aviation Administration science-based flight- and duty-time regulations to both passenger and cargo airline pilots.

“All pilots are human, and we experience fatigue in the same way, regardless of whether we are flying passengers or cargo in our aircraft,” Capt. Cassidy told the Subcommittee. “Despite this, the new science-based fatigue regulations apply only to pilots who fly passengers, and not to those who fly cargo. Leaving all-cargo pilots out of the regulations is a serious safety concern.”
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Support the Safe Skies Act!

S3165 — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:47:00 GMT

April 19, 2012 - All U.S. pilot members are asked to contact their congressmen in the U.S. House of Representatives to urge them to support the Safe Skies Act (H.R. 4350). This legislation would eliminate the air cargo carve-out from federal pilot fatigue regulations.

For decades, ALPA has advocated for “One Level of Safety” for the simple reason that all pilots, regardless of the nature of their operations, should be protected by the same rules.

“A tired pilot is a tired pilot, whether there are 10 paying customers on board or 100, whether the payload is passengers or pallets,” said National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman. Cargo pilots fly the same routes, in the same airspace, and into the same airports as their passenger counterparts. H.R. 4350 would undo the exemption for cargo carriers and require that all airline operations operate by the same safety standards.
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Airline Pilots to Senate Banking Committee: Protect Our Jobs in Ex–Im Bank Reauthorization

S3165 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:12:00 GMT

April 17, 2012 - Airline pilots from across the nation representing the Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA) and the Allied Pilots Association (APA) took to Capitol Hill today to attend a U.S. Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. The pilots delivered letters to members of the committee highlighting airline industry workers’ concerns about the subsidies the Ex–Im Bank provides to foreign airlines that put U.S. airlines at a disadvantage in the global marketplace and threaten thousands of U.S. airline employees’ jobs.

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Pilots Welcome U.S. Senate Passage of Ex-Im Bank Reforms

ALPA Commends U.S. House Passage of Ex-Im Bank Reforms

ALPA Hails Agreement on Ex-Im Bank Reauthorization

Airline Pilots on U.S. Ex-Im Bank Reauthorization: Key Reforms Vital to Protect U.S. Jobs

ALPA to U.S. House Subcommittee: Raise Airline Industry to One Level of Safety

Support the Safe Skies Act!

Airline Pilots to Senate Banking Committee: Protect Our Jobs in Ex–Im Bank Reauthorization

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Call to Action: No New Taxes on Our Negotiated Benefits

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ALPA Praises Congress for Granting Pilots Family Medical Leave Benefits

ALPA Praises Congress for Granting Pilots Family Medical Leave Benefits

ALPA Praises Congress for Granting Pilots Family Medical Leave Benefits

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Capt. Prater Testifies on Pilot Fatigue at Senate Hearing

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