Ryanair pilots across Europe are united in their determination to engage in meaningful and genuine Social Dialogue with management on issues of common concern to those who contribute to the airline’s success on a daily basis.

Ryanair pilots have asked to negotiate as a matter of urgency a Master Seniority List for all pilots across the company. Seniority lists are a tool used in most airlines and determine several things within an airline: when a pilot is eligible for upgrade, which aircraft they fly and their

"Pilot Health & Wellbeing" evaluates flight- and duty-times of airline pilots during summer schedule under the current regulations in the EU (cf. EASA FTL). "Aviation Menthal Support Health" gathers the opinion of flight crew members related to mental health support.

Free trade has been one of the good reasons leading to the creation of the European Union. The governments of the founding countries had the idea of free markets with common rules and fair competition. Boundaries had to be brought down and frontiers had to be crossed, which – in the end –

Incidents occur now on every 1424th flight worldwide, according to IATA. And will increase their frequency because there is no efficient way to prevent them. This sober realisation however has done little to inspire governments across the EU – and worldwide – to ratify the ICAO Montreal

Since several months the government of the United Kingdom and the European Commission are negotiating Brexit, meaning – for the first time in history – a country using Article 50 and leaving the EU. After the first rounds and rather general debates, we have now entered the phase, where the

Airlines are trying to win over passengers’ hearts with a wide-range of in-flight entertainment, including wi-fi, multimedia and streaming perks. In shrill contrast, behind the cockpit door, multimedia, real-time data & state of the art technologies are still playing catch up. Many pilots

As a pilot, the contrast between the order, structure and coherence of our standard operating procedures sometimes conflicts dramatically with the apparently chaotic way our employment is managed and administered. How can anyone believe that the recent phenomenon of atypical employment of

The growth of transnational airlines operating throughout Europe, and further afield, has led pilots to recognise that they must cooperate even more closely and adopt new representation methods to address the challenges arising from these new business models. At a meeting hosted by IALPA

To further improve the safety of SAR operations, and indeed all Irish aviation, IFALPA and ECA urge the Irish Minister for Transport to conduct an independent review into the oversight of such operations. Effective safety oversight is crucial to identify safety risk and prevent such