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

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is clearing the Boeing 737 MAX to fly after nearly 2-year grounding. The Airworthiness Directive issued today concludes a meaningful and thorough Boeing 737 MAX Return To Service (RTS) process. While trust and confidence were severely undermined

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 18.000 pilot jobs are threatened or already permanently lost. This redundancy tracker illustrates the

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