Following the election of the new CLX Divisional Board in May, we held our first Board Meeting to welcome the new members, allocate responsibilities, and discuss ongoing key topics. Below are the highlights and important reminders for you:
- PBS Working Group: Progress & Key Insights
- Additional Fatigue Reporting Forms – Every Report Counts
- ECA Defensive Flying Checklist
- Demonstration on 28 June 2025
PBS Working Group: Progress & Key Insights
Our ongoing work in the PBS Working Group continues to give us valuable insight:
- Success rate is on an upward trend (at least one Off Day Bid granted).
- Some small software bugs were identified and resolved in-house, based on your feedback to us or directly to Crew Planning.
- Still, roughly 10% of all bids remain non-viable. Please ensure your bids do not conflict with pre-allocated trips, vacation, or ground duties. Make use of dedicated waivers as necessary.
- Bid Priority Levels are commonly misunderstood. As explained in our tutorial videos, which you can watch on the ALPL website in the dedicated “PBS” section, the software ranks bids by priority:
- A P1 bid has higher priority than P2, P3, or P4 bids.
- Lower priority bids are not alternatives to P1 bids with the same priority as P1 – they are processed by the software with a lower priority.
- Often, P1, P2, and P3 bids can be combined into a single, well-structured P1 bid, which greatly improves your success chances.
- Always reorder your bids by importance – put your most important one as P1, and avoid gaps between e.g. your Off Day bids and your Standing bids.
- Based on the gathered information, we will prepare a new video to address common misunderstandings and provide guidance on optimizing your bidding strategy.
Additional Fatigue Reporting Forms – Every Report Counts
We would like to remind every colleague of the importance of filing Fatigue Reports.
- The main Fatigue Report shall be used if you ask for more rest or if you experience any level of fatigue during the rotation.
- The additional Top of Descent Report should be used ideally on every flight to report self-assessed fatigue level by using the KSS scale from 1-9.
- The additional Controlled Rest Report should be used whenever you took a nap on the flight deck to mitigate fatigue. In such case, also submit a Fatigue Report.
It is important to know that every crew member should submit their own individual Fatigue Report and not on behalf of the whole crew.
These reports are critical for identifying fatigue hotspots and extremely important in supporting our FSAG Representatives when discussing and pushing for meaningful mitigations.
Furthermore, this is a quick and effective way to provide feedback to Cargolux and helps the ASD gather valuable fatigue data across the network.
ECA Defensive Flying Checklist
Due to “more flights, tighter schedules and fewer buffers“ within the industry, the European Cockpit Association has published a checklist that can be used by commercial pilots as a guideline for navigating through this challenge and we believe it is a useful tool. Please find the link below:

Demonstration on 28 June 2025
We encourage all members to join the LCGB and OGBL demonstration to voice our concerns regarding the current government policies:
- Location: Luxembourg City
- Time: 11:00 AM
- Let us stand together – loud, peaceful, and determined!

Your presence matters. Let’s show unity and strength!