Talks on a new partnership deal between the EU and the UK are still ongoing, but a no-deal outcome is now touted as the most likely scenario. This is particularly worrying news for the hard-hit aviation industry and its professionals. With a pandemic still raging across the globe, EU and

If becoming a pilot ranked as ‘difficult’, ‘challenging’ or even ‘undesirable’ before the pandemic crippled the industry, starting your training today classifies as a folly.

The economic devastation caused by the COVID crisis simply depleted the chances of any flying job at the end of

The world is made up of pessimists and optimists, with the outcome usually somewhere in between. Optimism is not the same as being cheerful or just happy as these feelings are also not uncommon to pessimists. Pessimistic people more often feel that bad things are coming & their

Over 20 associations collectively representing the entire European aviation ecosystem have announced a joint commitment to work with policy makers to achieve net zero CO2 emissions by 2050, part of a comprehensive collaborative analysis released today detailing ways aviation can recover

After a long process, a winding road to success, provisions for Space Weather Advisories were introduced, effective from November 2018. One year later, in November 2019, three Global Space Weather Centers have become operational and provide Space Weather (SWx) Advisories. On the 28th of

Wizz Air expands. Aggressively. While its competitors are reducing capacity due to the COVID crisis, the airline is expanding and, since March, is taking on Western Europe with new bases and routes. But the airline’s overly optimistic outlook seems now to gradually subside to the reality

A new draft Standard on Aircraft Cabin Air Quality is currently approaching its final stages of development in the European Committee for Standardisation CEN. The draft prEN17436 “Cabin Air Quality on Civil Aircraft – Chemical Compounds” provides a world-beating reference on how to manage

Six months into the COVID pandemic, the people who have dedicated their careers to aviation – pilots, cabin crew, engineers, controllers, ATM and AIS personnel – have an important message for European Transport Ministers, who meet on 28 Sept: Aviation and its strategic infrastructure,

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. 

The European Cockpit Association, representing over 40.000 pilots in Europe extends its support to the 69 pilots of Air Malta, who were dismissed by the company in June 2020, and warns against the Government of Malta promoting precarious atypical aircrew employment.

Wondering about COVID’s impact on pilot jobs? Is it that bad?

The full extent of the devastation is still unknown. But the situation is grim – and the outlook even worse. To date, over 17.000 pilot jobs are threatened or already permanently lost. This redundancy tracker illustrates the