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September 10, 2014

In This Issue:

Breaking News:
     • Executive Board Convenes in Preparation for Upcoming BOD
Feature:
     • We Will Never Forget
Pilot Group News:
     • JetBlue Pilots Elect LEC Reps
     • ExpressJet MEC Reaches 100% PAC Participation
     • AirTran Pilots 4 ALPA Pilots
     • Calm Air In, First Air Out: Inuit Company Changes Airline Partners
National News:
     • ALPA Applauds U.S. House Efforts to Uphold Libyan Restrictions
       on Flight Training
     • HIMS Seminar Held in Denver This week
News on the Net
 

Executive Board Convenes in Preparation for Upcoming BOD

ALPA’s Executive Board met in Herndon today, receiving updates from the Association’s national officers on union activities and preparing policies—including a recommendation to lower the dues rate even further in 2015—for a vote by ALPA’s Board of Directors this October.

Read additional coverage of today’s meeting and view photos of the events, or watch the national officers’ remarks.

We Will Never Forget

Tomorrow marks the thirteenth anniversary of the horrific events of Sept. 11, 2001, that forever changed our lives, profession, and industry. We pledge to never forget the brave men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice.

A ceremony will be held at ALPA’s 9/11 Remembrance Garden in Herndon, Va., beginning at 8:30 a.m. ET tomorrow. Join us to pay tribute to the crewmembers of United Flight 93, United Flight 175, American Flight 11, and American Flight 77. For more details, view the invitation or send an e-mail to 9-11Remembrance@alpa.org.

View a list of other 9/11 events occurring in New York and Pennsylvania.

JetBlue Pilots Elect LEC Reps

ALPA’s newest pilot group has reached yet another membership milestone, with the election of permanent local council reps in all five domiciles. Voting closed today with more than half of the pilot group participating in the election process. Congratulations to all of the new reps, and thank you for volunteering your future time and efforts for the greater good of your fellow pilots.

ExpressJet MEC reaches 100% PAC Participation

Special thanks goes out today to the XJT MEC, which officially reached 100 percent PAC participation among their elected leaders this week. This great example demonstrates the commitment the MEC has shown to the PAC in the lead up to this year’s Board of Directors’ (BOD) meeting. The achievement comes in the middle of a PAC drive in which the carrier has boosted contributions into the PAC by 50 percent over the past 60 days.

XJT joins the leaderships at Alaska, Compass, Delta, Hawaiian, Mesa, and United, which have all now reached 100 percent participation. The PAC’s goal is to have every elected leader in ALPA giving to the PAC by the end of the BOD.

AirTran Pilots 4 ALPA Pilots

As the AirTran pilots leave ALPA, their Pilot Contingency Fund (PCF), created by the AirTran MEC in 2009 to aid AirTran pilots in times of financial need and hardship, will now be extended to benefit the lives of many others in the future.

A portion of the remaining funds will be contributed in the name of the AirTran pilots to an ALPA charity that supports our fellow pilots and their families, just as the PCF was originally intended. The AirTran pilots are making a contribution of over $51,000 to ALPA’s Emergency Relief Fund (AERF), also known as Pilots for Pilots or P4P. The donation will be granted this week.

Calm Air in, First Air Out: Inuit Company Changes Airline Partners

An Inuit-owned company based in Canada’s Kivalliq region is changing airline partners. After four years of collaboration with Ontario-based First Air, Sakku Investments Corp. is ending its relationship with the airline and opening up a new joint venture agreement with Exchange Income Corp. and its subsidiaries Calm Air and Keewatin Air. Both First Air and Calm Air are ALPA pilot groups.

Sakku and First Air had operated a joint venture in the Kivalliq area of Nunavut Territory since 2010. Calm Air, based in Winnipeg, hopes to expand its operations in Sakku’s operating area just as First Air is cutting back some of its flying there, including ending service to Repulse Bay. Many of Canada’s arctic airline operators are wholly or partially owned by corporations representing the nation’s First Peoples. The two largest Inuit-owned airlines, First Air and Canadian North, are in the preliminary stages of a potential merger that may result in a new airline being branded and formed in the next year or two.

ALPA Applauds U.S. House Efforts to Uphold Libyan Restrictions on Flight Training

Today ALPA issued a statement from Capt. Lee Moak regarding action by the Judiciary Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives to favorably report H.R. 5401, legislation to block a proposed Department of Homeland Security regulation.

“The Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l thanks Reps. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), and Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) for their leadership in introducing and the House Judiciary Committee for passing the Protecting the Homeland Act (H.R. 5401), which codifies into statute the current prohibition on admitting Libyan nationals to the U.S. for flight training.”

Read the full statement in ALPA’s press release.

HIMS Seminar Held in Denver This Week

The three-day annual HIMS Basic Education Seminar concluded today in Denver, Colorado. More than 300 airline, medical, and regulatory professionals and volunteers from around the globe attended and heard presentations from top experts over the three days. ALPA manages the HIMS program, which includes this seminar, on behalf of the FAA. At the conclusion of the conference, ALPA’s outgoing HIMS chairman, Captain Chris Storbeck (DAL), was recognized for his lengthy and distinguished service to his fellow pilots.

News on the Net

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