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EU Must Do More to Prevent Air Accidents
Better Learn than Punish – Protect Safety Information!
Europe is seeking to strengthen aviation safety through the current proposal for a new Accident Investigation Regulation. But this unique opportunity risks being lost!
EU Director on Civil Aviation Is Optimistic: European Air Transport Can Overcome the Crisis
The European Cockpit Association held its Annual General Assembly in Budapest on the 25 and 26 November. The General Assembly welcomed two new members representing the Romanian and Ukrainian pilots and elected three new Executive Board Directors: Carlos Salas (Vice President), Luis Bento (Professional Affairs) and Riku Aakkula (Technical Affairs). The General Assembly expressed their support and solidarity to the Hungarian Pilot Association, which is suffering disgraceful attempts at intimidation by their employer MALEV Hungarian Airlines.
ECA Calls on MALEV Management to Negotiate with Hungarian ALPA
In 2007 MALEV was subject to a highly secretive and ultimately commercially unsuccessful privatisation. The private management has used intimidation and bullying rather than adopting European best practices to run the Airline. At this week's ECA General Assembly, delegates from 38 European countries representing over 38,650 professional pilots in Europe unanimously supported the following motion:
Scientific Basis for Flight Time Rules Mandated by New ICAO Annex Amendment
As of today, EU Member States will be bound by new air safety standards – developed by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) – requiring that national pilot fatigue regulations shall be based on "scientific principles and knowledge". However, despite the availability of a recent scientific review of Europe’s fatigue rules, neither the national regulations nor the EU-wide rules are based on scientific evidence, except for the United Kingdom's "CAP 371". From today, ICAO inspectors will be able to denounce EU Member States for non-conformity with internationally agreed safety standards unless they swiftly implement rule improvements in line with latest scientific evidence.
7 Steps for Safe EU Air Crew Fatigue Rules
Today, ECA and ETF launched an Action Plan calling on the EU Institutions to swiftly revise EU fatigue law in line with latest scientific evidence. The Action Plan calls for concrete steps to be undertaken by the European Commission, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), EU Member States and the European Parliament to act upon a recent scientific study that shows that EU air crew fatigue law is potentially unsafe.
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