If flying a plane was like riding a bike, safety departments and aviation authorities wouldn't be scrambling now to come up with an efficient strategy to bring pilots back in the cockpit after more than a year of little to no flying. Unable to get enough flying hours and maintain a close

The low-cost long-haul airline Norwegian has laid off 90 per cent of its staff, leaving thousands out of work and many unable to get payments due. While the parent company is under restructuring proceedings in Ireland and Norway, European taxpayers, along with employees, shareholders,

The COVID crisis unleashed a new wave of anti-worker practices in European airlines. From new schemes of atypical employment – to outright dismissal without consultation, here we will collect airlines’ attacks on pilot jobs, terms and conditions. 

One of the clearest signs that the COVID-19 nightmare may soon be behind us is the announcement of new airlines coming into play: flyPOP (UK), Play (Iceland), EGO Airways (Italy), Norse Atlantic Airways & Flyr (Norway) or SouthEast Airlines (Slovenia)... And this is somewhat good news for

The Spanish National Court ruled that the employment contracts of cabin crew members with Crewlink and Workforce to provide services on Ryanair flights constitute an illegal hiring out of workers and that the real employer is Ryanair. The ruling means that some 400 cabin crew will be able

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

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

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

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

Ahead of the 1 March Extraordinary meeting of Ministers of Tourism, 14 European stakeholders in aviation and tourism have urged the Portuguese presidency of the EU to put their efforts into the coordination of all restrictive measures related to COVID-19.

Boeing was recently charged to have conspired to defraud the Federal Aviation Administration in the case of the B737 MAX. $2.5 billion later, the charge has been resolved but the stain on the manufacturer remains – and rightly so. The legal settlement with the Department of Justice

Airlines preparing the strategy of their recovery plans are facing tough choices, with some getting easily tempted into undermining working conditions or exploiting legal loopholes. This is certainly what at least 9 EU Member States do not want to see. Spain is the latest country to join a