Frontrunning: October 28

Author of already moot Government P2F answers Dutch State Secretary Wilma Mansveld resigned over incompetence case (DutchNews|NLtimes). Faithful explanation of unfair competition hits French national TV prime time over Ryanair vs Air France case in point, first time on p2f…

P2F baron & the FBI

With now more than a year under our belt on p2f (5 months after the official campaign kicked in), we gathered enough information to expose the enablers. Since most media are quick to report the trees for the forest like…

SNPL – ongoing support

Released yesterday Sept.14th, after a first mention in issue n°595 last year (and a follow-up shortly afterwards in issue n°596), we wish to thank the SNPL that dedicated 5 pages of issue n°606 of “La Ligne” to pay-to-fly (with our…

Paying to work is necessary

Earlier in february, pilots were told paying to work is fine (by Baltic Aviation Academy); today July 14th, paying to work becomes “necessary” according to AviationCV. Given it is just 4 days after the EC (European Commission) released its answers…

Hanging by a thread

Following the awareness successfully triggered at EC level (without the petition even breaking the 100k, European pilots were told DG MOVE (Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport) would “meet experts on this specific matter [p2f]“, which they did, on July 18th…

Ryanair – just doing it!

Last June 4th in Brussels was held “A Social agenda for transport”, a high-level Conference where John Horne laid bare aviation’s challenges once again, until… Today, we will confront facts yet again and see what this Michael Hickey is all…

Status quo: 1 – Safety: 0

In the ongoing war against (bogus) atypical employment in aviation, a battle was lost today in the Netherlands, June 2nd 2015, day #56 of the “Stop pay to fly“ campaign. Following a Dutch Parliament hearing (that occurred the same day…

Hope?

Less than 3 short weeks after the EP event, still in accordance with our road map for the “grand scheme of things”, the right dominos continue to fall one after the other. The following is the latest, presented with no…

P2F: European Parliament

A few days ago, on Day #2 (april 30th) of the campaign to “Stop Pay To Fly“, just as we finished discussions at VNV‘s office that concluded with their open support the same day: …we learnt that the topic would…