Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic many procedures and recommendations have been implemented by the Company during the last weeks. The Company communicated most of these procedures via different channels directly to the staff working in the different departments. No consolidated version, compiling all procedures related to aircraft turnarounds in a single document, has been made available until now.
The lack of a clearly documented process resulted in confusion and led to some of our members contacting the ALPL Board or management directly, asking to clarify the processes in order to minimize the risk of an infection. This deficiency has been communicated via different channels to management over the last weeks.
It is encouraging to see, that the Company finally published a consolidated procedure, summarising in one document what has been communicated to the Company via various channels during the previous weeks. This procedure has been made available to the pilots as a Flight Crew Advisory, while we have been assured that the other departments involved would receive the same procedure via the appropriate channel. Please click on the image below or follow this link to view this procedure.
Your Board would like to highlight the importance to follow these procedures at all times. Additionally, we would like to add the following comments:
- Since not all stations are staffed with Cargolux employees they may not have been briefed about the procedure. Kindly alert the ground crew over the headset, that no one should come to the upper deck until the arriving crew has disembarked the aircraft.
- If prolonged maintenance activities require the presence of maintenance staff in the flight deck, consider waiting on the upper deck until social distancing could be guaranteed again in the confined space of the flight deck.
We as your representatives believe that it is imperative to reiterate the importance to follow these procedures in order to minimize the risk of spreading the virus amongst us.
