In December 2015, Japan Airlines (JAL) announced a change to the employment practices it has had since 1994, and will now recruit cabin crew members on a permanent employment basis starting from April 2016. This is a great achievement in our long fight over 20 years since the company went ahead with its employment practice […]
The Department of Transportation (DOT) recently rendered a decision that would grant Norwegian Air International (NAI) a foreign air carrier permit and access to the US aviation market. NAI is a Norwegian airline in name only. The carrier is registered in Ireland to avoid Norwegian safety and security regulations and rents its cabin crews from […]
On April 15, the Department of Transportation (DOT) tentatively approved a Norwegian Airline’s request for a foreign air carrier permit to allow it to operate flights to the United States. Here’s the catch: That airline, Norwegian Air International (NAI), is registered in Ireland and will employ flight crews under Singaporean or Thai employment contracts and […]
As ver.di members strike at Cologne Bonn Airport today, their colleagues in the Independent Pilots Association (UPS pilots) are supporting them in the most concrete way possible: They’re refusing to cross the picket lines. IPA president Robert Travis vowed: We will honor their strike and not cross the ver.di picket lines.”. Read the statement and […]
Despite massive opposition both from the United States and Europe, the US Department of Transport (DOT) issued last Friday an order that would tentatively grant Norwegian Air International (NAI) a foreign air carrier permit, unless disapproved by the President of the United States. The international Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and the European Transport Workers’ Federation […]
Edward Wytkind, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), issues this statement in response to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s ill-advised order regarding Norwegian Air International’s application for a foreign air carrier permit: “We are strongly opposed to today’s show cause order issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation that could pave the way […]
A cabin crew union will stage a sit-in protest in Hong Kong airport on Sunday to protest the handling of an incident involving the younger daughter of Chief Executive Leung chun-ying. The action is intended to call out Norman Lo, director general of aviation, for his “irresponsible attitude” toward the controversy, the Hong Kong Economic […]
A delegation from the ITF attended the ICAO’s Fatigue Management Approaches in Aviation Symposium held on 5-6 April 2016 in Montréal, Canada. ICAO has developed guidance material for regulators, airlines, and ANSPs (air navigation service providers). This material can be found at here>> During the course of the symposium, the ITF met with Stephen Creamer […]
