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July 09, 2022

ALPA On The Warpath With DOT, Republic, SkyWest

Urges DoT to Reject Republic, SkyWest Bids to Undermine Landmark Safety Law

ALPA has filed formal opposition against two separate applications before the DOT and FAA asserting that both efforts are blatant attempts to skirt the nation’s most effective aviation safety improvements in decades—the First Officer Qualification Rules—and will leave the flying public at increased risk. Recently, Republic Airways and SkyWest Airlines filed independent petitions seeking approvals that would dimmish pilot training qualification and experience requirements while putting passengers and small communities that depend on safe, scheduled air service at greater risk.

Scandinavian Airline to Choose Between Paying Pilots or Piper

Some two-hundred aircraft mechanics have joined almost one-thousand striking SAS pilots in an ongoing dispute over pay, working conditions, and corporate restructuring plans at the struggling Scandinavian airline. SAS pilots have accused the joint Danish/Norwegian/Swedish flag-carrier of hiring new pilots at two of its subsidiaries—SAS Link and SAS Connect—at perniciously low pay rates. The disgruntled aviators allege the airline undertook the hiring scheme to circumvent its obligation to rehire approximately four-hundred pilots laid off during the pandemic at their outgoing rates of pay.