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March 15, 2012 |
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Download KCM Info to Your Smartphone! |
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 For
iPhone and Android
users, the ALPA Mobile
app has been updated to
provide information
about the Known
Crewmember (KCM)
program. The KCM portion
of the app includes
details on participating
airports and screening
locations, and
participating airlines,
as well as an FAQ guide
and a list of press
releases.
The ALPA Mobile app
is available for
download in
iTunes and
the
Android Market.
Click here for more
information.
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Secretary-Treasurers’ Conference Concludes |
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 The
annual
Secretary-Treasurers’
Conference of the Air
Line Pilots Association,
Int’l, wound down today
with presentations on
company-paid flight pay
loss, merger assessment
and funding issues, and
the latest offerings
from the Information
Technology and Services
Department.
In a segment
yesterday addressing
dues dollars, ALPA vice
president–finance and
meeting moderator Capt.
Randy Helling stressed,
“While our financial
situation has stabilized
in recent years, it is
by no means robust.” In
his various
presentations, he
repeated the
secretary-treasurer
mantra to “live within
your budget.”
During the course of
the three-day program,
conference attendees
learned about the
policies and nuances of
managing the union’s
resources, legal
considerations, and the
professional staff
members to contact when
they have questions, all
while networking with
their peers from other
member airlines.
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Controllers Extend Current Contract |
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 The
National Air Traffic
Controllers Association
(NATCA), representing
15,000 controllers,
announced yesterday that
it has reached a deal
with the FAA to extend
its existing contract
for another four years.
Controllers will
receive the same pay
raises as other federal
government employees (as
opposed to independently
negotiated raises), and
current work rules will
not change.
The most recent NATCA
contract was ratified in
2009. With this latest
decision, the collective
bargaining agreement now
runs through June 2016.
In a joint statement,
acting FAA Administrator
Michael Huerta and
National Air Traffic
Controllers Association
President Paul Rinaldi
said that this agreement
serves both
organizations.
Congrats to our
fellow AFL-CIO members
on their contract
extension!
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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 about the
effects of the FAA
reauthorization bill on
the Railway Labor Act
and the National
Mediation Board on page
20 of the
March issue of Air Line Pilot magazine.
On the 13th
installment
of
The
FlightDeck, get
an update on why the
U.S. Export-Import Bank
is running into some
funding problems.
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 the Dubai Chronicle, Emirates Airlines will begin service
between Dubai International Airport and Washington’s Dulles International
Airport beginning this September.
Read more.
• USA Today reports that airline passengers who are at least 75 years old
will be able to keep their shoes and light jackets on at security checkpoints at
four airports starting Monday.
Read more.
• Air Transport World says the FAA recently announced that the U.S.
commercial-aircraft fleet shrank to 7,185 by the end of 2011.
Read more.
• Per the Wall Street Journal, on-time arrivals by U.S. airlines rose
sharply in January over the year earlier, according to data from the Department
of Transportation. Hawaiian Airlines was the most on-time carrier in January
with a 91.2 percent punctuality rate.
Read more.
• According to TheStreet, Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport will
begin gate and runway improvements to handle the Airbus A380, which Korean Air
plans to fly there as soon as January 2013.
Read more.
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At a latitude of 78.208885, Svalbard Airport (LYR, serving Svalbard, Norway) is
the northernmost airport in the world with scheduled passenger service.
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Feedback & E-mail Address Changes |
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will no longer receive the ALPA FastRead and other e-mail bulletins and notices,
and once your postal forwarding order expires, you’ll no longer receive the
magazine and other ALPA mail. You can do it yourself by going to
www.alpa.org and logging
in. Go to “My ALPA” in the menu at the top of the page, and from there, you’ll be
instructed how to make the necessary changes. If you don’t have access to the
members-only section of
www.alpa.org, you can
e-mail your requests by sending them to
membership@alpa.org. Be sure to include your member number or enough other
information so that we can identify you in the membership database, and tell us
what information needs to be updated. Please note that it is not sufficient
just to notify your LEC or MEC of these changes—you should register them with
the ALPA Membership Department in Herndon. Can’t remember your member number
or how to log in? Need information about your ALPA insurance programs? These and
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