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  • News in brief #6

    News article
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    16 March 2021
  • Behind the smokescreen: bogus self-employment

    News article
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    16 March 2021
  • Uberization of pilots: a dead end?

    Editorial
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    16 March 2021
  • Pilots join initiative to ramp up use of Sustainable Aviation Fuels

    Press release
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    15 March 2021
  • Flights Into And Over Conflict Zones

    Position paper
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    15 March 2021

News

News in brief #6

News in brief #6

The timing of EASA’s first webinar on fatigue risk management (FRM) in cargo & on-demand operations is somewhat symbolically marking the first anniversary of pandemic-boosted cargo operations. Those unfortunately resulted into record-high levels of fatigue among many cargo pilots. Didier
News article
Mar 16, 2021
Behind the smokescreen: bogus self-employment

Behind the smokescreen: bogus self-employment

Even if in the eyes of Michael O’Leary all pilots are ‘glorified taxi drivers’, those two job descriptions have hardly anything in common. Or maybe they do. The latest UK Supreme Court decision declaring Uber drivers to be misclassified employees, entitled to ‘workers’ status, hits home
News article
Mar 16, 2021
Uberization of pilots: a dead end?

Uberization of pilots: a dead end?

We have just witnessed a sad social experiment of why the ‘gig economy’ – with its bogus self-employed workers – is not a sustainable employment model.  The pandemic delivered a punch to almost all self-employed pilots, who suddenly lost their jobs and income, resulting in financial
Editorial
Mar 16, 2021
SAF

Pilots join initiative to ramp up use of Sustainable Aviation Fuels

Europe’s pilot community is joining a coalition of aviation and environmental organisations, calling for a ramp-up of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) as a scalable, long-term solution to decarbonise aviation. Europe’s environmental ambitions have taken a concrete shape under the EU Green

Press release
Mar 15, 2021
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Positions

Flights Into And Over Conflict Zones

Flights Into And Over Conflict Zones

Even if it is currently not possible to totally avoid flights in and over conflict zones, in principle ECA objects to those flights because of the associated inevitable increased risks.

Mar 15, 2021
Flights Into And Over Conflict Zones, ECA 2021
Combatting human trafficking in aviation

Combatting human trafficking in aviation

As a fast-growing transportation means, aviation is also increasingly being used for human trafficking. However, aviation’s unique nature presents many opportunities to identify and react to human trafficking, as passengers are kept under observation during the entire process, from check

Jan 05, 2021
Combatting human trafficking in aviation, Position Paper
Cyber threat to civil aviation

Cyber threat to civil aviation

Global aviation connectivity is ramping up with the generalization of non-aviation specific technology such as big data, cloud-based infrastructures, mobile networks, electronic flight bags, onboard internet, satellite communications and navigation. The typical commercial and cargo flight

Jan 04, 2021
Cyber threat to civil aviation, Position Paper
RTW

Remote Towers

Remote Towers (also referred to as Remote Tower Services RTS, Remote Tower Operation RTO, Remote Aerodrome ATS RAATS and Remote Virtual Tower) is a concept where the air traffic service (ATS) at an airport is performed remotely, i.e. somewhere else than in the local control tower. It

Nov 17, 2020
Remote Towers, ECA, 2020
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Campaigns

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COVID-19 Updates

mental health pilots covid

Amidst a pandemic: an epidemic of anxiety

Aviation without pilots covid19

Aviation without pilots

COVID-19 Safety Aspects

COVID-19 Safety Aspects

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Created in 1991, the European Cockpit Association is the representative body of European pilots at EU level. 

 

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The European Cockpit Association represents the collective interests of professional pilots at European level, striving for the highest levels of aviation safety and fostering social rights and quality employment.

 

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