Air Safety Organization
Last Update: 12/11/2020 12:29 p.m.
Air Safety Organization Updates
As the world's largest nongovernmental aviation safety organization, the ALPA Air Safety Organization (ASO) has been meeting regularly since the start of the pandemic.
Read the latest meeting minutes (Last update: April 22).
ALPA Programs and Resources
- DART: Ask Your COVID-19 Questions
- Calls to Action (U.S. and Canada)
- Air Safety Organization Bulletins
- Ops Bulletin: Revised FAA Regulations for Oxygen Mask Use
- Security Alert: COVID-19 Hardening Our Target
- Pilot Assistance Bulletin: Professional Pride
- Safety Alert: Diligence Through Rough Times
- KCM, CASS, and Jumpseat Availability to Furloughed and Terminated Pilots
- Summary of Relevant Policies and Documents
- Furloughed Pilots Support Program
- Pandemic Action Checklist
- Member Insurance
- Pilot Assistance
- All Available Programs: Aeromedical, Pilot Peer Support, Human Intervention and Motivation Study, Professional Standards, Critical Incident Response Program, and Canadian Pilot Assistance
- Pilot Peer Support Quick Reference Handbook: COVID-19
- An Aviation Professional's Guide to Wellbeing
- AFL-CIO: Coronavirus Advice for Unions
- IFALPA: COVID-19 Guidance for Crews
Travel Warnings and Notices
- U.S. State Department:
- Alert for All Travelers
- Global Travel Advisory
- View All Country-Specific Advisories (This list is updated regularly, so check the site often for new advisories.)
- Government of Canada: View all related travel health notices
Airline Industry/Travel Recommendations and Policies
- Commercial Aviation Safety Team: A Reference List of Safety Elements to Monitor During a Period of Dynamic Change
- Manufacturer Guidance on Disinfection
- Boeing Memo (04/23/2020)
- Airbus Operators Information Transmission (02/06/2020)
- EASA Interim Guidance on Aircraft Cleaning and Disinfection (03/20/2020)
- ICAO:
- DOT:
- Health and Human Services
- DHS/CBP/TSA:
- Advisory Memorandum on Identification of Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers During COVID-19 Response
- Nongovernmental Bodies:
- U.S. Embassy & Consulates in China
- Science and Technology Master Question List for COVID-19
- Tracking confirmed cases in TSA officers
- U.S./Mexico Border Closed to Nonessential Travel
- Use of Expired Driver's License
- Notification of Arrival Restrictions Applicable to Flights Carrying Persons Who Have Recently Traveled From or Were Otherwise Present Within the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland*
- Notification of Arrival Restrictions Applicable to Flights Carrying Persons Who Have Recently Traveled from or Were Otherwise Present Within the Countries of the Schengen Area
- TSA Increases Hand Sanitizer Allowance to 12 Ounces
- FAA:
- Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin: Aircraft Interior Disinfection (11/04/20)
- Safety Alerts for Operators:
- Use of chloroquine (Aralen)/hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil) for COVID-19 prophylaxis
- COVID-19 Relief For Certificate Holders: Policy Deviations, Exemptions, and Rule Changes
- Medicals:
- Medical Exemption* (Applies to International Crews)
- Enforcement Policy for Expired Airman Medical Certificates* (Applies to Domestic Crews)
- Drug/Alcohol Testing:
- Oxygen Mask Requirement (Final Rule)
- Spearphishing Using Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Theme Poses Potential Risk to Aviation Personnel
- Screening Protocols for Flight and Cabin Crews at U.S. Ports of Entry*
- Interim Health Guidance for Air Carriers and Crews
- Novel Coronavirus Update
- DHS:
- CDC:
- Interim U.S. Guidance for Risk Assessment and Public Health Management of Persons with Potential COVID-19 Exposures: Geographic Risk and Contacts of Laboratory-confirmed Cases
- Travel: Frequently Asked Q&A
- Q&As about the Interim Final Rule for Control of Communicable Diseases: Foreign Quarantine
- Cleaning and Disinfecting Recommendations:
- Order: Passenger Manifest
- Death and Disease Reporting Tool for Pilots
- Government of Canada:
- Global Exemptions:
- NCR-034-2020: All flight test candidates with outstanding incomplete flight tests on March 11, 2020, allow to complete the flight tests beyond the 30-day limitation (Issued May 25, 2020): English | Français
- NCR-071-2020: Medical certificate holders, validity period ending between March 17, 2020 and August 1, 2020 (Issued May 26, 2020): English | Français
- Passenger pre-screening and facial covering requirements on flights
- Orders (Search keyword "COVID")
- COVID-19 measures, updates, and guidance issued by Transport Canada (Includes explanation of all measures taken, guidance for air carriers and air crew, interim orders for boarding passengers, and extensions to various documents such as medicals): English | Français
- Posters of Restrictions in Effect for Air Travellers (based on location of travel):
- Recommended Disinfection and Sanitation Practices for Aircraft: English | Français
- Preventing COVID-19 in the workplace: employers, employees and essential service workers*
- Aviation measures in response to COVID-19*
- Global Exemptions:
- Hong Kong Government: Quarantine Guidance
- WHO: Advice for International Traffic
- IATA:
Reporting Deaths or Illness in Flight
42 CFR 71.21 requires the pilots of international flights to the United States to report before arrival any deaths or illnesses (as defined in the regulations) among passengers or crew to CDC’s quarantine station at or nearest to the airport of arrival. This may be done by a report to ATC or the company using established means for that purpose.
CDC Death and Disease Reporting Tool for Pilots
*For additional details from ALPA on resources marked above, see our Summary of Relevant COVID-19 Documents for Flight Crews.