What do you do if your roof is leaking and your walls and floors in the house are getting soaked? You look for the hole and then you repair it as soon as possible. The current European Air Services regulation is full of holes, which are harmful to crew and many airlines. These holes have

A bribery and corruption investigation linking high-ranking members of the European Parliament (MEPs) with Qatar, shook Brussels in December. Four people are now facing preliminary charges of corruption, money laundering and participation in a criminal organization. 

Since 2015, multiple EU studies, impact assessments, evaluations, and consultations on the very regulation that governs this Single Aviation Market – the EU Air Services Regulation (Reg. 1008/2008) – have consistently come to the same conclusion: The current Air Services Regulation is

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For years, the management of airports have been chasing larger bonusses for themselves and their shareholders by outsourcing people and bringing down terms and conditions to a point where people start running away from the industry. Many of their airline counterparts haven’t done much

For the past 12 months labour and transport experts from EU Member States gathered information and discussed the wide-spread phenomenon of Pay-to-Fly (P2F) schemes. Their conclusion is that P2F is bad and should be forbidden. So far with the good news. The bad news is that surprisingly the

What came as a great astonishment to the Ryanair Transnational Pilot Group, after analysing the financial figures of FY2022, is that all Ryanair top management returned to pre Covid terms and conditions already 15 months ago, i.e. in April 2021!

During the same time, pilots within the

The pilots in SAS are on a strike to fight for a decent working life and secure jobs.

The summer chaos in Europe’s aviation is putting not only passengers under considerable strain but also the tens of thousands of aviation workers which are still available after two years of pandemic. Despite high levels of stress, growing fatigue and exhaustion, pilots are doing their

Summer is particularly busy, any year. But this year is even more so: From airport security and baggage handlers through Air Traffic Control to pilots – the entire system cringes under pressure and operates with tiny buffers as the post-COVID ramp up of operations is taking place. A summer

Years of cost-cutting, social dumping and COVID crisis management are now wreaking havoc in Europe’s aviation. A summer of disruptions, flight cancellations and aircrew fatigue has started and will likely worsen in the coming weeks.

If you followed the news these last couple of weeks, you will have noticed that, while the post-covid recovery in the travel industry is here, the industry itself seems to be in serious disarray. Reports of passengers stranded in major European airports, endless waiting lines, a huge