Executive Board

The new edition of IFALPA’s bimonthly magazine InterPilot is available online. Click on the image below or this link to access the magazine.

A new edition of ECA’s Cockpit News is available online. Follow this link to access the magazine.

A new edition of ECA’s Cockpit News is available online. Follow this link to access the magazine.

On 15 May 2018 the association’s General Assembly took place. One topic on the agenda was the election of a new ALPL Executive Board after the regular two-year term.

As the previous Executive Board members stood for re-election and as no other candidacies were received, the attendees of the General Assembly voted by acclamation the new Executive Board.

A new edition of ECA’s Cockpit News is available online. Follow this link to access the magazine.

All members are cordially invited to the ALPL General Assembly 2018.

15 May 2018
19.00 local time
ALPL Office
1A, rue de Trèves
L-2632 Findel
Luxembourg

The updated agenda for this General Assembly 2018 including any additional documentation as required by Art. 9 of association’s statutes, can be found here.

An important agenda item of this year’s General Assembly will be the election of a new Executive Board as per Art. 3 in accordance with Art. 9 of the association’s statutes.

In addition to the election of a new Executive Board and the mandatory agenda items, this year’s General Assembly will be asked to vote on some amendments to the association’s statutes. The main amendments concern membership, allowing professional operators of remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) or in short drones, to become full members of the association and to allow full membership of professional pilots employed in the growing business aviation segment of Luxembourg’s aviation industry. Further to these amendments minor changes to Art. 6 and Art. 10 will also have to be voted on.

A doucement showing the changes recommended by the Executive Board is available following this link.

The process outlining changes to the statutes of the association is indicated in Art. 15 of the statutes, which are available here.

For further questions please send an email to office@alpl.lu.

On April 7th  an invitation was published to take part in an EU-wide study conducted on behalf of the EU Commission, to explore the employment and working conditions of aircrews in Europe’s aviation market.

While at the first glance this study is about atypical employment, the survey includes some questions regarding aircrew fatigue!

While most ALPL members are still employed under typical employment forms, e.g. directly employed by their airline, the impact of atypical employment models on us cannot not be underestimated. The same applies certainly for fatigue, which is a growing concern amongst our members.

For the validity of this study it is also important to receive data from crew members employed under typical form of employment. Your responses will help assess the extent of (ab)use of atypical employment, their impact on working conditions, and if existing EU and national rules are sufficiently protective. We encourage all of our members to participate in this important survey.

The survey takes about 20 minutes to complete and is open until 07 May 2018. In case you already completed this survey, we would like to thank you for your effort and investing some of your valuable time!

If you have any questions about the survey or study, the Ricardo team can be reached at aviationemploymentstudy@ricardo.com.

The new edition of IFALPA’s bimonthly magazine InterPilot is available online. Click on the image below or this link to access the magazine.

All members are cordially invited to the ALPL General Assembly 2018.

15 May 2018
19.00 local time
ALPL Office
1A, rue de Trèves
L-2632 Findel
Luxembourg

The Agenda for this General Assembly 2018can be found here.

An important agenda item of this year’s General Assembly will be the election of a new Executive Board as per Art. 3 in accordance with Art. 9 of the association’s statutes.

Those members willing to stand for election shall post their candidature to the Executive Board latest ten (10) days before the General Assembly, by completing this form and send the same either by electronic mail or by normal post to the attention of the Executive Board at execboard@alpl.lu.

After five years serving as the association’s Flight Safety Committee chairman, Joachim ‘Joe’ Fischer decided to step down from his position.

During his tenure as chairman the Flight Safety Committee accomplished some important projects, which include amongst others the implementation of a 24/7 emergency hotline for our members to provide access to the trained experts of the committee in case a member is involved in an incident or accident, creation of updated guidelines and checklists in case of incidents or accidents as well as fume events and qualifying six of the committee’s IFALPA accredited accident investigator as observers for Luxembourg’s accident investigation board (AET). Last but not least Joe is involved in implementing a peer support system at Cargolux. Joe will remain a member of the Flight Safety Committee representing our association in the German Flight Safety Forum and the IFALPA accident investigation and prevention committee.

Joe will be succeeded as committee chairman by Joachim Eder, who served as the committee vice chairman since late 2017.

The Executive Board would like to thank Joe for his dedication and the time he invested chairing the Flight Safety Committee, taking the committee to the next level and providing input and guidance for the Executive and Divisional Boards on flight safety related matters. At the same time the Executive Board welcomes Joachim Eder as new committee chairman wishing him much success in this new position.