Fellow Pilot,

During the past several months, ALPA’s Fee-for-Departure (FFD) Committee, which is composed of the MEC chairmen from ALPA fee-for-departure carriers, has been meeting to discuss the various challenges that our sector is experiencing and identify how we can overcome these challenges. Capacity reductions, bankruptcies, increased competition for new flying, changes in fleet composition to more fuel-efficient aircraft, cost, and contract discrepancies have all led to difficult negotiations for our members. To identify how best to deal with these challenges, particularly across the negotiating table, the FFD Committee requested the assistance and advice of ALPA’s Collective Bargaining Committee (CBC).

For those who don’t know, the CBC is a national ALPA committee composed of eight pilots from a broad range of ALPA carriers, including four pilot volunteers from ALPA fee-for-departure carriers. Our purpose is to support ALPA’s collective bargaining efforts, and our main function is to review and make recommendations to help establish favorable contract patterns across pilot groups.

In order to better understand the issues that are most important to you, we need to hear directly from you. Therefore, with the support of the FFD Committee, the CBC is conducting a survey of all ALPA pilots at fee-for-departure carriers. Our purpose is to identify and prioritize the issues that are most important to you. Once we have a better understanding of what those priorities are, we can work with the FFD committee to establish clearly defined goals that will lead to improvements in your pay, benefits, job security, and career progression. Together we can develop plans to achieve those goals.

Your participation in this effort is critical in developing a plan that will support bargaining efforts across the board. ALPA pilots are most effective when we use one collective voice representing all pilots. Capt. Moak is committed to working with the mainline brand carriers, the National Mediation Board, and other industry stakeholders to further the goals developed as a result of this process.

The general survey includes 35 questions plus an opportunity to provide comments. The survey is now open and will run through the end of March.

You can take the survey online by clicking: FFD_Survey
Please login with your ALPA number (please include leading zeroes)

· If you have trouble accessing the survey or have questions regarding the login process, please email [email protected]
· You may only take the survey once. If you need to save your work, please click the “Save” button. When you resume it will pick up where you left off.
· ALPA will receive a summary of how many people have taken the poll, as well as a summary of their collective answers. We will not know your individual responses.

It is vitally important that you participate in this process. Only through broad-based participation can we develop goals and objectives that reflect your collective interests. Individual survey responses are completely confidential, and the compiled results will only be utilized by the CBC, FFD Task Force, and ALPA staff.

Thanks in advance for your participation,