In a move certain to foment increased informational picketing outside the hubs and headquarters of its competitors, American Airlines has offered its pilots pay increases of up to $64,000.
The move sets a new benchmark in the cash-grab into which the post-COVID airline industry has descended. American Airlines CEO Robert Isom has outlined a proposal entailing a 16.9% pay-raise for the carrier’s fourteen-thousand pilots. This could be your next trainer... Elektra Solar has successfully test-flown the Elektra Trainer, the company’s two-seat, electric, ultralight aircraft. With test-pilot Uwe Nortmann at the controls, the Elektra Trainer prototype departed Memmingen International Airport in southern Germany on 29 June. The aircraft rose, silently and sans-emissions, after an impressively brief, one-hundred-meter takeoff roll, and climbed at a brisk, eight-meters per second and remained aloft for twenty minutes. The Airline Pilot Club and Skyborne Airline Academy have formed a partnership with the goal of providing aspiring airline pilots professional guidance and high-quality, theoretical, and practical training. The Airline Pilot Club (APC) is a community of aspiring pilots,
newly qualified pilots, flying schools and airlines about the noble endeavor of increasing accessibility to flight training and pilot careers. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!
This episode of Airborne-Flight Training 07.07.22 is chock full of info in this Daily News Episode, Thursday, July 7th, 2022... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Host Holland Lee. Holland is supported by ANN Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, as well as ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell. This episode covers:
- American Airlines Offers Pilots Significant Pay Increases
- Elektra Trainer Impresses During Maiden Flight
- New, Airline Pilot Club / Skyborne Air Academy Partnership Offers Pathway
- NBAA Granted Limited Relief From Record Keeping Regulation
- Electric Aircraft Symposium Returns
- EAA Objects to 'Controversial' Drone/UAV Rule Making Report
- FedEx Pilots to Management: Now Is the Time to Deliver for Us
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