Our fight against the pay-to-fly practice, aka “p2f”.
This March 23 aired a French TV report about p2f notably (with our proud participation), exposing Small Planet Airlines, Vietjet and Royal Air Maroc among the offenders. We knew since 2012 Royal Air Maroc (RAM) was involved in pay-to-fly, selling…
Finalized this december 4th by Steer Davies Gleave‘s (SDG) associate Rosie Offord, expected for summer 015 as we were directly told by DG MOVE last May 22th, their “study on employment and working conditions in air transport and airports” is…
As reported three days ago, a p2f-dedicated meeting occured today dec.9th at 14h00 (Brussels local time) on DG Tran premises to present and engage in Q&A which, for the record, unfolded in accordance with the following canvas : The dice…
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…
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…
Van: “Renata Lasota” <r.lasota@enterair.pl>Onderwerp: Enter Air training offer – surveyDatum: augustus 2015 Dear Pilot, We are pleased to inform that we are planning to launch new training program soon. Therefore, we would like to carry out a survey on the…
With the MSM (mainstream media) catching up to industry fact that the pilot-shortage narrative might not be that simple after all, this July 21th both CNN and CNBS (in a lesser extent – UAE media totally disqualify) ended up suggesting…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Date: Day #9 of the “Stop pay fo fly“ campaign, (May 7th, 2015), 1500-1700.Event: European Parliament (EP) meeting – Committee on Employment and Social Affairs – Current situation of employment and working conditions in the European civil aviation sector. –Exchange…
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…
Today April 28th 2015, all hands on deck, the European Cockpit Association officially launched the campaign to Stop “pay to fly”. Must read include: And now we leave it to anyone to wonder on the facts: is…
