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!
Category Pay-to-fly
Our fight against the pay-to-fly practice, aka “p2f”.
Pay-to-fly: COVID style
...what was once "bad" became "worse", what was once "simple" became "complicated" and what was once "affordable" became "unreachable".
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,…
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…
#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…
EP – Aviation Strategy approved
Echoing the “Social dumping in the EU” report approved by the EP earlier in September, today Feb. 16th has been approved the “Aviation Strategy for Europe”. Though a political text (to be released) with no direct legislative value, the Parliament…
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French National Assembly – P2F answer
One week after the milestone of the European Parliament recognizing and willing to take action against social dumping, p2f included, the French National Assembly issued its own related answer this 20th of September, courtesy Deputé Fernand Siré: fullscreen This marks…
Frontrunning: October 5
“Social Dumping in the EU” report approved by the European Parliament, p2f on board (edit fev.17′: final version here)_sept.14th Three Swiss pilot unions have merged into AEROPERS – Airline Pilots Association:former AEROPERS-SwissALPA (Union of Swiss International Air Lines), IPG (Union…
Condor Pilot Training scam
Icarus melt his wings aiming for the sun? Pilots could melt theirs, aiming at the eluding first job in rumors that emerged early 2016 of extended delays after having paid initial sums to Spain-based Condor Pilot Training (not to be…
Atypical EMPL – 1 year and a half later
ECA – atypical employment in aviation We witnessed first hand and covered the exposure of Ghent University’s work to the European Parliament back in May 2015, however we also intended to cover the February 12-13th ECA conference that occurred beforehand…
Royal Air Maroc : lies exposed
Following our previous coverage of Royal Air Maroc‘s (RAM) refutation of P2F collaboration, despite already proven deals, the time has come to probe the existence of its ties with the rampant cartel involving P2F advocate Baltic Aviation Academy (BAA). RAM…
Frontrunning: May 16
Small Planet Airlines : German AOC secured 3 days ago to fly for tour operators TUI and Thomas Cook, echoing controversial strike-breaking wet-lease with Norwegian. Soon more p2f in Germany (in the footsteps of Cockpit4U and Germania) ? Ryanair :…
Avia Solutions Group – sirens aren’t real
Already getting media attention for all the wrong reasons, one of our readers drew our attention on the Avia Solutions Group. As a reminder, the Lithuanian holding (overseeing 20 services firm) owns the largest eastern p2f cashing machine known to…