FAA lowers requirements on pilot experience
...brokers [...] are only waiting for the hour threshold to drop to bridge a bigger gap between pilots' curriculum and airlines' expectations... for a profit!
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Pay-to-fly: COVID style
...what was once "bad" became "worse", what was once "simple" became "complicated" and what was once "affordable" became "unreachable".
Livre : ‘L’armée de l’Air et son jargon’ !
C'est parce que nous aidons les aspirants pilotes aux sélections de l'armée depuis 2010, que naturellement nous appuyons cette initiative...
Brookfield – “Would you work for free?”
Infamously known as a front for pay-to-fly with then-client Ryanair, as we explained back in 2015, flight crew leasing company Brookfield Aviation International is back at the forefront of our attention for all the wrong reasons again. There will NEVER…
Atypical Employment Survey 2.0
It seems like yesterday, when the 1st Atypical Employment Study was relayed, triggering awareness on modern day pilots’ working conditions. By ripple effect, contractors, self-employment, temporary agency workers and pay-to-fly became terms more widely known to the general public. Pilots,…
ECJ: “Stand-by time is working time”
Two days ago February 21th 2018, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) released its ruling on case C-518/15, concerning stand-by at home. Why a fireman case in Belgium… Under local regulation, volunteer firefighter Rudy Matzak in Nivelles -Bruxelles- had to…
MEDIA: P2F going mainstream
The comics Released today in the November bimonthly issue of french magazine “Piloter”, pay-to-fly gets, to our knowledge, its first dedicated professional comics highlight! Leading the charge is scenarist, photograph and comics artist Christophe Gibelin. Throughout the eight glossy pages…
RYR – waiting for the other shoe to drop
Not gone unnoticed, Europe’s favourite airline announced last week Sept. 16th the cancellation of up to 50 flights per day until October 31th, affecting 315,000 passengers and its own wallet for up to €20m in compensation bill. Admittedly, this brilliant…
#EUaviation25 – P2F in Germany
The European Commission celebrates today the 25 years of the EU Aviation Market that started June 26th 1992. It is with delight that we chime in amidst prayers of travel ever cheaper, safer and open to more people than ever…
P2F: German TV report
Following a first report in April last year, “Das Erste” released what is to our knowledge the 2nd German TV broadcast to explain and put into context the “pay-to-fly” (p2f) phenomenon. This report also hits the mark on a wide…