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Features 37 About the 24 Exact Change Cover Needed at the Ex-Im On March 6, 1957, Capt. Ernie Bank Cutrell (American) received ALPA’s first Air Safety Award from Clancy 26 ALPA’s 60th Air Sayen, ALPA’s president, at the Safety Forum: A Association’s Air Safety Forum for contributing to the advancement Celebration of Pilots of aviation through his work on Helping Get the Job centerline approach lightning. At Done Safely and the time of the award presentation, Cutrell’s Securely approach lighting system had become Commentary the nation’s standard. Download a QR reader 4 Taking Off to your smartphone, Part of a Positive scan the code, and Solution read the magazine.

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TakingOff Part of a Positive Solution omplaining about a situ- Whether it’s mixing copper with zinc to cre- ation is easy. It takes no ate brass, which resists friction in a lock, or combining carbon dioxide with water and strategic thought, expert C making a soda to cool down on a hot summer insight, or optimism. The chal- day, solutions bring together different values lenge comes in constructing a that make for even greater success. Complaining positive solution to remedy a In July, I led the Association's manage- ment team in a one-day intensive leadership about a situa- situation. seminar that was centered on solution-based tion is easy. It And that is exactly the mission of the Air management. I challenged our union’s Line Pilots Association, International—the professional staff leaders to capitalize on takes no stra- elected pilots in leadership, the team of the values and variables among our staff tegic thought, pilot volunteers who advocate for the cause, members and to find new ways to combine expert insight, and the dedicated staff members who sup- them to create positive solutions to achieving port the mission and tactics that ensure our members’ goals. or optimism. success. Teambuilding is also critical to building As staff, we are constantly evolving to chemistry. We’ve tried to begin incorporating adapt to new challenges or the same ones more of these opportunities for staff mem- Lori Garver General Manager we’ve seen since ALPA’s inception in 1931, bers who are able to carve out time during [email protected] when staying alive was the rallying cry their busy weekends to support that camara- for unity. derie that is necessary for teamwork. Although safety remains a priority of this On June 21, ALPA held its 2014 Golf Open. union, we’ve grown far beyond that. And ALPA staff and their families gathered for an ALPA’s staff has grown and adapted to the opportunity to better get to know colleagues needs of the members. Through the more and the qualities that each of us brings to than 80 years of the Association’s existence, our union as its professional staff. As I played, we continue to be solution-based, helping joined by my son (our team was fortunate maintain ALPA’s leading position as the advo- enough to win the tournament!) and others cate for the airline pilot. from ALPA, I learned more than ever about In chemistry, a solution is the combina- ALPA’s staff members’ vast skills, talents, and tion of two or more substances to create a experience. new substance with different—and usually Together, we are all part of a positive stronger or more advantageous—qualities. solution.

4 Air Line Pilot August 2014 AviationMatters In the Grey

e live in an era of black and white, without a lot of grey. home nations but also from points Too often, perfect is the enemy of good in an all-or- in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere, it’s Wnothing end game, and this applies to many elements time we revisit select Open Skies of our lives. This is unfortunate, both in terms of our larger so- agreements that may no longer be ciety and the airline industry, as aviation policy is certainly not working for U.S. airlines and their immune to this severity. employees. Liberalization. The pursuit of open markets by the relax- Across the Atlantic, the debate ing of government regulation. over liberalization versus protection- Protectionism. Using government policy to restrict market ism has generated significant access. attention, in part because of ALPA’s One policy is black; one is white. aggressive advocacy campaign to Too often, perfect is The right path forward for global aviation, however, is actually deny Norwegian Air International’s quite grey. The problem in Washington, D.C., Ottawa, Brussels, (NAI) application for a foreign the enemy of good and other capitals around the world, however, is that there is air carrier permit from the U.S. in an all-or-nothing too often the narrow belief that there is no room for grey, and Department of Transportation. NAI one must pick a side. Are you for liberalization or are you for falsely claims that ALPA is engaging end game, and this protectionism? For the Air Line Pilots Association, and for good in protectionism by seeking to applies to many ele- government policy, the answer is in the grey. block its application and that liber- Liberalization is best manifested through Open Skies and alization should win out at all costs. ments of our lives. bilateral agreements, which have greatly benefited both U.S. and This is far from accurate. Canadian pilots. The opening of new markets around the world In fact, the NAI issue is quite has allowed U.S. and Canadian carriers to reach new markets and grey and quite complicated. In short, NAI is the subsidiary of has expanded flying opportunities around the globe. Norwegian Air Shuttle (NAS), an existing European low-cost In some cases, however, liberalization has not worked as airline that is based in Norway. NAS has an existing subsidiary, intended. Many of the U.S. Open Skies agreements were negoti- Norwegian Long Haul (NLH), also based in Norway, that already ated decades ago, using a template that changes little from has existing service to the United States using Open Skies. To country to country. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Open Skies gain an advantage over its competitors, however, NAS set up agreement was inked when Emirates, now the largest airline in NAI in Ireland to get out from under Norwegian tax, regulatory, the world by some measures, was a small, Gulf-focused airline, and labor laws to use the more lax laws in Ireland. Irish laws and Etihad, the fastest-growing airline in the world, didn’t yet would allow NAI to use contract crews employed by a Singapore exist. Fueled by pro-aviation government policies that prioritize contract firm and base those crews in Thailand. This is a bas- airlines as a driver of the broader UAE economy and, at times, by tardization of the Open Skies agreement, in violation of U.S. direct and indirect state subsidies, these state-supported enter- and international law, and the U.S. DOT should deny NAI. That prises have massively benefited from liberalization—including a isn’t protectionism—it’s the proper enforcement of liberaliza- combined more than two dozen routes to the United States from tion laws. the Gulf, and now using Fifth Freedom rights from Europe. As we move into the next As United CEO Jeff Smisek said recently, “Emirates, the carrier, phase of our Save Our Skies can fly anywhere it wants in the United States of America in (SOS) campaign (sos.alpa. return for which we can fly anywhere we want within the emirate org), we will be working with of Dubai.” This is a problem for U.S. carriers and their employees. our allies to find solutions to And while protectionism is not the answer, nor is the continued these problems to ensure that blind pursuit of liberalization as government policy. The answer liberalization is working for North American pilots. That isn’t falls somewhere in the grey in the middle. protectionism. We know that opening global markets has been Liberalization does not always work for all sides, particularly good for our pilots. Our position is much more nuanced. It’s grey, when the open market is no longer a free market because one side and with your help, we will be successful. skews the market with state subsidies. State-owned enterprises from the Middle East (including Gulf airlines), Asia, and elsewhere continue to expand at rates only possible given the support of their home governments. And as they seek to broaden their use of Fifth Freedom rights to fly to North America not just from their Capt. Lee Moak, ALPA President

August 2014 Air Line Pilot 5 WeighingIn Raising the Safety And Security Bar

of MH17 clearly illustrates that risk is ever-changing, and By Capt. Sean Cassidy, ALPA First Vice President evaluating risk must be continuous. As shown by successful alternative screening programs such as Known Crewmember, ust as this issue was about to go to press, the world was Global Entry, and PreCheck, as well as greater advances in transfixed by shock and horror as we viewed television security by aggregating intelligence data, human factors, Jand Internet images of the scattered wreckage of Malay- and technology, risk-based security clearly is the way of the sia Airlines Flight 17. Seismic events like this challenge our future. industry to revisit the issue of risk and Ironically, our success has made ferreting out the more reevaluate the steps taken to safeguard subtle threats to aviation safety and security even more airline operations against threats to difficult. Since we’ve plucked all the proverbial low-hanging safety and security. fruit, what should we do next? The dynamic practice of risk man- The answer is staring at us in the mirror. While the power agement, which constantly balances of archival data used to detect risk factors and steer us the probabilities that events may hap- toward mitigations is truly incredible, even more remarkable pen against the consequences of if they is the capacity for flightcrew members to absorb myriad do, has been essential to the continued real-time risk factors and make immediate decisions, backed success of the airline industry and has up by training and experience, that ensure safe and secure grown in sophistication as airlines have outcomes. Every year at our Air Safety Forum, we honor, with grown in complexity. Accordingly, in our current world of “big the ALPA Superior Airmanship Award, flightcrew members data,” we must leverage the tools we have at our disposal to for the talents they’ve demonstrated in safely tackling a set drive our programs to even greater success and relentlessly of risks that threaten the safety of their flight. advocate for smart, responsible use of data. Data inform us; Regarding MH370, a disturbing suggestion arose after the data help us detect precursors to undesired events versus waiting for the event to happen and then asking why. ALPA actively participates in the Commercial Aviation “As you prepare for your next Safety Team (CAST), which was formed in 1998 with the audacious goal of reducing the scheduled airline fatality rate flight, ask yourself what you in the United States by 80 percent by 2008. Through CAST, can do to raise the safety and and smart use of data, our industry has discovered, assessed, and ranked a huge number of risk factors. This has led to security bar.” more than 200 safety enhancements ranging from terrain awareness warning systems to guidance for implementing ASAP and FOQA programs. aircraft’s disappearance that the aircraft should be “pilot We’ve changed pilot training, aircraft and ATC equipment, proofed,” and that certain aircraft systems should be isolated procedures, facilities, airports, airspace—and even, to a from the flight crew. As frustrating as the disappearance of notable extent, the culture of the airline industry and the the aircraft has been, the bigger question, especially since government agencies that regulate it in North America. As no data point to what might have prevented the accident, for the goal of reducing airline accidents, with CAST’s leader- is, Why trade a known risk (inability to isolate an electrical ship, our industry exceeded it by reducing the fatality risk in system) for an unknown risk (possibility that a navigation U.S. scheduled airline transportation by 83 percent between system may be rendered inoperative) given the exceedingly 1998 and 2008—truly an astounding accomplishment! rare likelihood that a similar circumstance might happen Most significantly, new CAST-recommended enhancements again? Even with the Malaysia Airlines tragedy, given our are now derived from potential precursors to accidents and success in safety and security, the statistics don’t lie. The incidents rather than incidents themselves. simple takeaway here is, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Shifting to security, after learning bitter lessons from the As you prepare for your next flight, ask yourself what you attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, plus such notable events as the can do to raise the safety and security bar. For more than failed terrorist attack on Northwest Flight 253 in 2009, the eight decades, ALPA pilots have been asking that question security world awakened to the undeniable fact that given of themselves daily. For more than eight decades, thanks to our finite resources, a risk-based approach is essential to you, we have continued to elevate the science and the art of achieving a more secure aviation infrastructure. The tragedy risk management.

6 Air Line Pilot August 2014 n Airline Industry News Domestic News

¼¼ The U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics an- nounced in late June that U.S. scheduled passenger airlines reported a net profit of $507 million in the first quarter of 2014, down from a profit of $7.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2013 and up from a loss of $392 million in the first quarter of 2013. artist rendering: http://takingoff.delta.com/ artist rendering: Artist's rendering of the main room of the new Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta, Ga.

percent in May compared in Atlanta, Ga., reported the flight from Dallas. Tex., to with April’s 1.1 percent. Atlanta Business Chronicle. Jackson, Miss., on June 17, Weather was blamed for 33.5 The museum features 1929. percent of delays in May, up interactive exhibits, rare ¼¼ Airline fares increased ¼¼ The U.S. Department from 26.6 percent in April. aviation items, and the only almost 6 percent in May, the of Transportation reported ¼¼ On June 17, Delta full-motion flight simulator in highest one-month increase that 76.9 percent of airline Air Lines celebrated the the U.S. open to the public. in 15 years, per the U.S. flights arrived on time in grand opening of its new The grand opening marked Bureau of Transportation May, down from 79.6 per- 68,000-square-foot Delta Delta’s 85th anniversary of Statistics. Airfares increased cent in April. Airlines also Flight Museum, located at passenger service, dating 4.7 percent between May canceled more flights—1.9 the airline’s headquarters back to its first passenger 2013 and May 2014, 

TheSidebar Before there were four-color In “Then and Now” (page 27) flagship publication, just as it regularly through covers, there was vintage ALPA. and “On the Shoulders of Giants” was in 1957, but it’s by no means these same This month’s throwback (page 28), you’ll get a glimpse of our members’ only source of mediums. With cover from April 1957—the the impressive feats ALPA has information. When the original all these tools at first Air Safety Award honor- been able to accomplish because photo of Capt. Cutrell ran, Air our disposal, our ee—was chosen specifically to of the individual efforts of its Line Pilot was the only medium members have honor the line pilots of yester- dedicated members. Capturing all in which our members heard more resources day who laid the foundation of it would require more than this regularly from their union. Today, available and more for this organization, weaving 40-page magazine; and although we have a major presence on information about their union “Schedule with Safety” into the the summaries are brief in length, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. and about what we’re doing for fabric of ALPA’s existence. It’s they are heavy with substance. Our website receives tens of thou- them than ever before. also a nod to our line pilots of Following the lead of the sands of hits a week, a number As always, thank you for today who have picked up the theme for this year’s 60th Air we expect to grow substantially as your continued readership and torch and will carry it into a Safety Forum—A Celebration of we revamp and re-launch the site feedback (including bad jokes) future of new technology and Pilots Helping Get the Job Done in the coming months. on how we can continue to new challenges. Safely and Securely—the maga- We send regular e-mail updates grow and improve. We are very As we combed through zine’s editorial staff agreed it was through FastRead, our members proud of our history, and we numerous past covers of Air important to highlight this major can subscribe to a daily news are confident in our continued Line Pilot, we quickly realized milestone by reflecting on our his- service through ALPA Daily, and future. that vintage ALPA isn’t any dif- tory as we plan for our future. As broadcast bulletins and Calls to ferent from today’s ALPA. Same George Santayana famously said, Action are blasted out on impor- Namaste, mission, same purpose, same “Those who cannot remember the tant subjects when the situation Sharon B. Vereb unparalleled level of support past are doomed to repeat it.” demands it. Our master executive Editor in Chief from line pilots. Air Line Pilot remains our and local councils communicate Air AugustLine Pilot 2014 Air Line Pilot 7 n Airline Industry News (continued) the biggest year-over-year News reported that on July now the world’s busiest change since November 1 Southwest Airlines flew in terms of international 2011. internationally for the passengers, overtaking ¼¼ Per the Orlando Business first time, with service London’s Heathrow Airport. Journal, in early July to the Bahamas, Aruba, Dubai handled 18.36 million Embry-Riddle Aeronautical and Jamaica. The airline international passengers in University became the first will add flights to Cancun the first quarter of 2014; training provider in the U.S. and Los Cabos, Mexico, on Heathrow handled 16 million to receive FAA approval Department of August 10 and to Mexico City people during the same pe- for its airline transport Transportation will require and Punta Cana, Dominican riod. Dubai International was pilot certification training 27 airlines to report the Republic, on November 2. also the fastest-growing air- program. “The FAA approval loss, injury, or death of “It’s huge,” said a Southwest port during that timeframe, of our ATP course ensures an animal in their care. © Fly_dragonfl photo: fotolia.com/ executive, regarding the with an 11.4 percent increase that our graduates will have Currently, only 14 airlines are move into international in the number of passengers the qualifications necessary required to make the reports. markets. “Obviously we’ve compared to the same period to be employed, succeed, Additionally, the agency has been waiting for 43 years to a year ago. and help shape the future of expanded the definition of get to this point….” ¼¼ Per Breaking Travel News! the aviation industry, ” said “animal” to include all cats Norwegian Air carried more Ken Byrnes, chairman of the and dogs, including those International News than 2.3 million passengers flight department at Embry- being shipped by a breeder, in June 2014, an increase of Riddle’s College of Aviation. rather than just pets traveling ¼¼ The Wall Street Journal 21 percent from June 2013. ¼¼ According to USA Today, with their owners. reported that Dubai The airline’s load factor was beginning Jan. 1, 2015, the ¼¼ The Dallas Morning International Airport is 82.5 percent, up 2.9 percent. n FrontLines ■■ALPA Responds to Reported July 17. Airline Pilots’ Associations, Christopher Loss of Malaysia Airlines “Information about the to assist the international Hart as chair- Flight MH17 situation continues to emerge aviation community in every man of the “The Air Line Pilots and myriad questions remain way possible with the shared NTSB. Hart’s Association, International is unanswered. We urge the exer- goal of advancing a safer air extensive expe- deeply troubled by reports of cise of extreme caution before transportation system around rience in mul- the loss of Malaysia Airlines speculating on the details the globe.” tiple aspects of Flight 17. Our thoughts are of the reported accident or transportation Christopher Hart with the families of the crew, events surrounding it. ■■ALPA Lauds Hart’s and the avia- passengers, and all those “As always, ALPA Nomination to Chair NTSB tion industry has resulted in affected by the event,” com- stands ready, through the “ALPA applauds President repeated safety advances mented the Association on International Federation of Obama’s nomination of over decades of service,” com- mented ALPA on June 27. “Hart has long advocated Join the Fight: Ask Your Senators to Deny NAI and participat- for the collection and shar- Senators Amy Klobuchar Senate. The amendment ing in ALPA’s CALL TO ing of safety data. In the (D-Minn.), Dan Coats (R-Ind.), requires the Department of Call to Action. years since his initial term at Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Transportation to follow the Also call your ACTION the NTSB from 1990 to 1993, and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) have law and provisions agreed senator through and through his leadership filed an amendment to the to in the U.S.-EU Transport the Capitol switchboard at roles at the National Highway U.S. Senate’s version of the Agreement when considering 202-224-3121 and urge him Traffic Safety Administration FY 2015 Transportation an application for a foreign or her to vote yes on the and the Federal Aviation Appropriations bill, which air carrier permit. Send a Klobuchar-Coats-Schatz- Administration, ALPA and the as of press time was message to your senator by Blunt Amendment to Deny industry as a whole have ben- pending business in the going to www.alpa.org/issues NAI. l efited from his vigorous efforts to improve aviation safety.

8 Air Line Pilot August 2014 The airline is slated and three B-787-9 tions makes permanent to take delivery of 14 Dreamliners. The air- a special exemption that B-737-800s and four line currently has 102 allowed Canadian Mounties B-787 Dreamliners this airplanes in its fleet, to carry firearms aboard year. airplanes with more luxurious with more than 210 addi- Canadian flights. Until now, ¼¼ Chicago Business Journal amenities, including shower tional airplanes on firm order, Canadian regulations offi- reported that as Emirates spas for first-class passengers plus options and purchase cially banned all loaded guns Airline gets closer to launch- and an onboard cocktail rights for an additional 81. on airline flights. mirates A6- E DC © Quentin Douchet photo of A380 E mirates ing daily nonstop service lounge for all premium pas- ¼¼ Boeing announced that ¼¼ USA Today reported that in between Chicago’s O’Hare sengers, was prompted by a there will be a projected late June Lufthansa received International Airport and growth in traffic on those two global demand for 36,770 delivery of the 1,500th B-747 Dubai on August 5, the air- routes. new airliners over the next ever produced. The airplane line is moving to introduce ¼¼ With the addition of six 20 years, an increase of 4.2 has been in production since more of its largest and most new routes in 2015, Etihad percent from last year’s 1968 and was the world’s first amenity-filled airliner, the Airways’ global passenger forecast. The company’s widebody jet. Airbus A380, on routes from and cargo network will recently released annual ¼¼ Transport Canada an- U.S. gateways. Emirates increase to 107 destinations, Current Market Outlook nounced that it will beef announced that the A380 will reported Travel and Tour report estimates the total up passenger screening debut on its San Francisco- World. To support the airline’s value of those new airplanes procedures in response to Dubai route on Dec. 1, 2014, growth, nine airplanes are at $5.2 trillion. U.S. concerns that terrorists followed by Houston-Dubai scheduled for delivery in the ¼¼ According to The Globe may attempt to smuggle on December 3. Emirates first half of 2015: three A320 and Mail, an update to explosives onto U.S.-bound said the switch to larger family airplanes, three A380s, Canadian aviation regula- flights. l

“ALPA has worked with Hart and employment those airlines’ New technology and both as a regulator and as a status of airline flight attendants the integration of security board member and found him crewmembers. also use KCM. and boarding systems and to be a leader and innovator The program ALPA’s goal is for procedures have combined of the highest standards. He enhances secu- all U.S. airlines to to hamper pilot-in-command is extremely knowledgeable in rity, strengthens join the program (PIC) authority regarding flight aviation as a pilot, an engineer, partnerships, and and have it be deck and cabin access by and an attorney, and we look allows the TSA to available nation- jumpseaters. Proper use of the forward to continuing to col- focus on travelers wide. For the flight deck jumpseat is a time- laborate with him to further the agency knows most up-to-date tested enhancement to safety improve aviation safety.” less about or who information on and security that must remain present a greater the current KCM under the control of the PIC. ■■OKC Becomes 55th KCM risk to aviation security. airports and airlines, select the The council urges all PICs to Airport The testing of risk-based KCM tab on the ALPA app for review and decide upon each On June 30, the Known screening for flight crews iPhones and Android devices jumpseat request Crewmember (KCM) program began in 2011 and was ap- or visit www.knowncrewmem- and not delegate became operational at Will proved by the TSA for expan- ber.org. that authority to Rogers World Airport (OKC) in sion in 2012. As a result of any other individ- Oklahoma City, Okla., the 55th ALPA’s successful partnerships ■■ALPA Updates Jumpseat ual. It also encour- airport in the United States to with Airlines for America and Guide ages the PIC to implement KCM. the TSA, KCM has evolved into ALPA’s Jumpseat Council always question KCM is a risk-based security a robust nationwide program, has published an updated gate agents regarding boarding screening program that en- having screened more than 19 jumpseat guide to inform information at show time, and ables Transportation Security million crewmembers to date. and assist all ALPA members to check with the gate agent Administration (TSA) officers Currently 45 airlines have regarding jumpseat policies regarding jumpseat requests

to positively verify the identity pilots using KCM, and 34 of and procedures. before departure to  August 2014 Air Line Pilot 9 n FrontLines (continued) protect the jumpseat privilege mainland and interisland com- 9. The dinner, which provided to §49 of the Canada Labour and ensure that jumpseaters muters, establishes a “fresh pilots and families a chance Code. The notice is a necessary are properly accommodated. slate” for all Island Air pilots to meet and talk to their step to protect the pilots in To download the guide, scan regarding attendance monitor- elected leaders and with other advance of the Oct. 31, 2014, the QR code. ing, and no longer counts Portland pilot families, was expiration of their current col- fatigue/sick calls against a held in conjunction with the lective agreement and before ■■Island Air Pilots Build on pilot’s record when calculating Alaska MEC’s three-day quar- the March 31, 2015, expira- Contract Gains attendance “occurrences.” terly meeting held in Portland. tion of the Canada Post and With the ink hardly dry on the Both provisions immediately Once a year, the MEC Purolator Courier contract. Island Air pilots’ new contract, went into effect. conducts its meeting in a base The notice accomplishes the pilot group has gone back other than its main several things: It triggers the to the negotiating table and office in Seattle, Wash., statutory freeze that protects all has achieved even more gains. to give more pilots the the terms and conditions in the The pilots’ Master Executive opportunity to observe current collective agreement Council has ratified two new their MEC and union from change until a new agree- agreements with temporary in action. During the ment is reached; it starts the pay raises and permanent dinner, pilots and fami- duty to bargain, which requires improvements to the airline’s Alaska pilots and their families enjoy lies heard about how the parties to meet within 20 attendance policy. family night in Portland, Ore. issues in Washington, days of the notice; the parties The first agreement pro- D.C., affect their lives are under a legal obligation vides premium pay of 1.75 ■■Alaska Pilots Get Together as Alaska pilots, discussed the to bargain in good faith and times regular pay to pilots who For Family Night need for a strong ALPA-PAC make every effort to reach a voluntarily “max bid” over the Nearly 100 Alaska Airlines to protect their careers, and new agreement; and it puts in next three months and work pilot families joined the Alaska talked about FAR 117. motion a legal timetable for the an additional three days per Master Executive Council negotiations process. month, a move designed to (MEC); Family Awareness ■■ALPA Serves Notice to In mid-July, two preliminary bolster staffing as Island Air Committee volunteers; Capt. Kelowna Flightcraft to Begin negotiating sessions were transitions to a new fleet type. Lee Moak, ALPA’s president; Negotiations scheduled with the pilots’ The second creates, among and Capt. Sean Cassidy, ALPA’s On June 30, ALPA officially Master Executive Council and other things, the airline’s first first vice president, for a family served a Notice to Bargain on Negotiating Committee and “commuter policy” for both night in Portland, Ore., on July Kelowna Flightcraft pursuant management.

LegislativeUpdate n ALPA Tells Congress: all stakeholders, including that are state-subsidized or $25 million for FY2015 in Authorize the Ex-Im Bank, Boeing, to engage in open state-owned,” Moak stated the House budget. During But Reforms Are Needed dialogue and seek compro- in the letters. the recent markup of the On July 10, in letters to mise while working to move Department of Homeland members of the U.S. the reauthorization of the n House Fully Funds FFDO Security Appropriations Senate and House of bank forward (see “Exact Program for FY2015 bill, the committee unani- Representatives, Capt. Lee Change Needed at the Ex-Im For the third year in a row, mously voted to maintain Moak, ALPA’s president, Bank,” page 24). President Obama’s budget the FFDO program’s current voiced ALPA’s support for “[W]e believe straightfor- threatened to dramatically funding level. the reauthorization of the ward reforms must include cut the Federal Flight Deck This battle now moves to Export-Import Bank with changes to the statute to Officer (FFDO) program. the Senate, where ALPA fully appropriate reforms to limit stop the bank from financ- And for the third year in a expects a similar amend- financing of widebody air- ing widebody aircraft to row, ALPA fought back and ment to pass with a large craft. Moak also called upon credit-worthy foreign airlines restored the program to bipartisan coalition. l

10 Air Line Pilot August 2014 ■■Jazz Goes Live with Online ■■Delta Pilot Receives Q&A, “The Contact” Prestigious Fellowship On June 19, the Jazz Master F/O Helena Reidemar Executive Council (MEC) held (Delta), ALPA’s director of its third live question-and- allows us to answer all Immediately, the MEC went Human Factors, was recently answer session for the pilot of the questions thoroughly, to work to help the pilots, elected a fellow of the Royal group. Jazz pilots were invited but also provides an easily creating a pilot work-sharing Aeronautical Society. Based to submit questions at the referenced resource for the program and offering special in London, England, the Royal MEC homepage (JazzPilots. entire pilot group whenever leaves of absences. Aeronautical Society “exists to alpa.org) and have them it’s convenient for them to The work-sharing program further the advancement of answered in real time by the log on to the site. As we move allows more pilots to remain aeronautical art, science, and MEC as well as members toward negotiations, these employed for a 10-month engineering around the world,” of the Negotiating and two-way communications period starting on August and the fellowship is the high- Communications Committees. tools will become even more 1. Pilots who request to est honor conferred by the Over six hours, pilots submit- important as we seek to unify participate in the program organization. ted more than 60 questions on and strengthen our group.” would have a “partner pilot” Reidemar published a full range of topics, and the and alternate flight or reserve a technical paper group answered all of them. ■■CanJet MEC Works to blocks and complete months titled “Human Factors The Q&A remains on the site Mitigate Furloughs off work. The agreement Standardization in Safety so that all Jazz pilots have The CanJet Master Executive also allows pilots to request Applications” and has been the opportunity to review the Council (MEC) leaders, with unpaid leave of absence for a an ongoing advocate for information. the support of their ALPA la- 12-month period with recall human factors studies. In “With an all-pilot call, it can bour relations counsel, recently rights, per the contract. The pi- addition to her ALPA work be difficult for pilots to listen negotiated an agreement with lots will keep their permanent and flying, Reidemar serves in while they are flying or to management that will help positions and will continue to as adjunct professor at review what questions have mitigate impending furloughs. accrue seniority rights during the University of Central been asked and answered,” Two months ago, management the leave. Through these Missouri, where she teaches commented Capt. Claude announced future furloughs, programs, the MEC was able to graduate-level classes in Buraglia, the pilots’ MEC chair- including up to 22 pilots for drastically reduce the effects of human factors and safety man. “However, ‘The Contact’ the 2014–2015 winter season. the furlough. management systems. MarketWatch Airlines Parent Company Stock Symbol 6/28/2013 6/30/2014 % Chg. American Eagle, Piedmont, PSA American Airlines Group, Inc.1 NASDAQ: AAL $16.42 $42.96 161.6% Hawaiian Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. NASDAQ: HA $6.11 $13.71 124.4% AirTran Southwest Airlines2 NYSE: LUV $12.89 $26.86 108.4% Delta, Endeavor Air Delta Air Lines NYSE: DAL $18.71 $38.72 106.9% Spirit Spirit Airlines, Inc. NASDAQ: SAVE $31.72 $63.24 99.4% Jazz Chorus Aviation TSX: CHR.B $2.22 $4.17 87.8% Alaska Alaska Holdings, Inc. NYSE: ALK $52.00 $95.05 82.8% JetBlue JetBlue Airways Corporation NASDAQ: JBLU $6.29 $10.85 72.5% FedEx Express FedEx Corporation3 NYSE: FDX $98.58 $151.38 53.6% United United Continental Holdings, Inc. NYSE: UAL $31.29 $41.07 31.3% Air Transport International Air Transport Services Group, Inc. NASDAQ: ATSG $6.61 $8.37 26.6% Air Transat Transat A.T., Inc. TSX: TRZ.B $7.50 $9.49 26.5% Atlantic Southeast, ExpressJet skyWest, Inc.4 NASDAQ: SKYW $13.54 $12.22 -9.7% Bearskin, Calm Air Exchange Income Corporation TSX: EIF $26.16 $22.61 -13.6%

1 US Airways and American completed their merger on Dec. 9, 2013. The price shown above for June 30, 2014, is the stock price of the new company, traded as “AAL” on the NASDAQ. The price shown for June 28, 2013, is the price of the old US Airways stock, which was traded on the NYSE as “LCC.” That stock ceased trading on Dec. 6, 2013. Under the terms of the merger agreement, US Airways stockholders received one share of common stock of the combined airline for each share of US Airways common stock then held. 2 Southwest announced a $0.06 dividend on June 2, 2014. 3 FedEx Corporation announced a $0.20 dividend on June 17, 2014. 4 SkyWest, Inc. announced a $0.04 dividend on June 26, 2014.

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■■Alaska Pilot Brightens representatives who recently Child’s Final Days of Sight met Ben and his family at the While flying a recent trip, Capt. Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport, when Chris Cice (Alaska) picked up Ben and his family received a copy of USA Today. In it was the news that Alaska Airlines an article about Ben Pierce, would be sending the boy, his a 9-year-old Texas boy with a parents, and his five siblings wish list of things he wants to Fairbanks, Alaska. The trip to see before he loses his is being planned for this fall, eyesight—a certainty he is fac- since the Northern Lights ing due to complications from won’t be visible again until Capt. Fred Dimaya (Hawaiian) and students at Mililani Ike an extremely premature birth. September. “Things happen Elementary School. Ben’s story moved Cice, who for a reason, and I thought, ■■Hawaiian’s “Aviators small as one student (an Eagle I’ve got the ability to at least For Education” Completes Scout) to more than 625 stu- present this to Alaska; they Successful Year dents and 75 teachers at just can take it from there,” Cice The current school year is one school, 42 Hawaiian pilots said. “They took off with it. over, and the Hawaiian Master brought the joy of aviation There wasn’t even any hesita- Executive Council’s (MEC) and a stay-in-school message tion. It makes you feel good to “Aviators for Education” to more than 4,600 youths at go to work and see things like program earned a resounding churches, schools, scout gath- this happen.” “A.” Hawaiian’s dedicated pilot erings, museums, and airports Capt. Cice (Alaska) and Ben volunteers have made their in Hawaii and California. ■■Delta Pilots’ Charity Gives hang out. committee among the most “If we can inspire just one Kids a High-Flying Adventure productive in ALPA, holding 72 student per session to ‘fly wondered if he might be able One hundred kids a year— total events in the 2013–2014 straight and level’ and go after to help Ben cross one item off forever. That’s how many school year, including 40 his or her dreams, it is well his list: the Northern Lights. children the Delta Pilots school presentations, 5 com- worth the time and effort we Cice reached out to his Charitable Fund (DPCF) is munity events, 15 tours of put into this program,” said airline and, within a few days, sending to YMCA camp in Honolulu International Airport, Capt. Harold Fujii (Hawaiian), the wheels were turning to the Detroit, Mich., area. The and individually mentoring the pilot group’s Education make Ben’s wish a reality. Cice group, financed exclusively by 12 students. In gatherings as Committee chairman. was among the Alaska Airlines individual charitable donations

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12 Air Line Pilot August 2014 from Delta pilots, gave leaders come from a vance the pilot-partisan agenda $150,000 to the Metro diverse set of master by recruiting your colleagues Detroit YMCA, and the Y executive councils, but into the PAC today. Scan the said “thanks” on May 3 at they all share the com- QR code to see who’s on top of Capt. Jim Breaugh (Delta) and children Camp Ohiyesa with a day of mon goal of advancing a the ranking and to learn more from the YMCA of greater Detroit, fun and food for the pilots, pilot-partisan agenda by about Project Wingman. Mich., cut the ribbon to open the High other Delta employees, and increasing participation in In related Adventure Area. their families. The YMCA ALPA-PAC. “Pilot-to-pilot news, on June 20 has designated the high ropes cause it strengthens the values conversations are the most ALPA-PAC added and climbing section of the that parents teach children at effective way to grow the PAC,” its 1,000th new camp the “Delta Pilots High home and helps kids believe said Zack Mooneyham, ALPA’s contributor in Adventure Area.” in their potential. The pilots political representative. “These 2014. This unprec- The DPCF collects dona- hope it will help the children individuals are showing the edented growth has pushed tions from Delta pilots and build character, confidence, great effect just one pilot can participation in the PAC to grants the money to non- and friendships, while learning have if they just talk about the new heights. “This is officially profit organizations benefitting independence and problem- PAC with their colleagues.” the best participation year children in communities solving skills. Project Wingman has added for the PAC since 2004,” said across the country where Delta more than Elizabeth Baker, director of pilots live and work. Capt. ■■Project 550 new con- ALPA’s Government Affairs Jim Breaugh, the DPCF vice Wingman—Who’s tributors in 2014, Department. “Now we need to chairman and a Detroit-based Leading the 2014 totaling almost $100,000 in push to make sure it’s also the pilot, said the DPCF chose to Rankings? receipts. That number already best year for total receipts.” support the YMCA camp be- This year’s Project Wingman exceeds 2013’s totals. Help ad- ALPA started the 

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year with a goal of adding make that a reality by joining ALPA-PAC and about contributing to advocacy visits with their mem- 1,200 new ALPA-PAC contribu- ALPA-PAC today. ALPA-PAC by entering the members- ber of Congress. Interested? Go tors and breaking $1.2 million, The descriptions of the Air Line only portion of www.alpapac.com. to www.alpa.org/issues to find but the surge in participation Pilots Association PAC are not a out about upcoming webinar over just six months is caus- solicitation to contribute to the ■■ Do You Have What It training dates. The webinar ing ALPA to reevaluate those PAC. Only ALPA members, ALPA Takes to Become a District lasts approximately one hour plans. The new goal is 2,000 executives, senior administrative Advocate? and will train participants new contributors and raising and professional staff personnel, and ALPA is looking for volunteers to become effective District more than $1.4 million to have their immediate family members who are interested in promot- Advocates. Covered topics the best year in PAC history living in the same household, are ing the Association’s legislative include the structure of ALPA’s and become the largest avia- eligible to contribute to ALPA-PAC. agenda and want to serve as grassroots program, how to set tion PAC in the country. Go to ALPA-PAC maintains and enforces a pilot-partisan representatives to up and conduct local congres- www.alpapac.com and help policy of refusing to accept contribu- their local congressional office. sional visits, and a briefing on tions from any other source. ALPA Volunteers should be willing current pilot-partisan legislative l Solution to this month’s members may learn more about to schedule and lead in-district issues. ALPA sudoku on page 38. n Check Out Leadership From the Cockpit 9 2 3 6 1 7 5 8 4 Want the latest information from ALPA on 4 6 8 2 9 5 7 1 3 what it’s doing to defend and promote the 5 7 1 3 8 4 9 6 2 airline piloting profession? Check out the 8 3 9 4 7 1 6 2 5 Association’s blog, Leadership from the 7 4 5 8 2 6 3 9 1 Cockpit, part of AlpA’s ongoing efforts to 2 1 6 9 5 3 8 4 7 give members new ways to keep current 1 5 4 7 6 9 2 3 8 with everything the Association is doing. 3 9 2 5 4 8 1 7 6 Go to leadershipfromthecockpit.com to 6 8 7 1 3 2 4 5 9 subscribe to the blog and receive notifica- tions and updates by e-mail. l Have You Read? Mac Parker: Escape From Venezuela By Capt. Lee T. Levenson (FedEx, Ret.)

M ac Parker is a former Navy SEAL, highly a coup attempt. But past events would indicate his loyalty is qualified, but questions as to his overall to the president, raising questions about the root of the politi- fitness due to injuries suffered during cal friction. Enter FARC—the Revolutionary Armed Forces of active duty in Afghanistan take him out Colombia—and the ensuing kidnapping, hostages, gunfire, and of the game for a while. At a loss for what murder by Colombian leftist rebels, and the story escalates. to do with the time on his hands, he It’s now incumbent upon the president of the United States, agrees to serve as a flight attendant on his his national security advisor, the CIA, and the Department of uncle’s start-up venture, Air-South Cargo Homeland Security to get involved and bring the situation under Express, which has been hired to transport control. A rigorous and unrelenting effort is undertaken to bring a high-profile aviation trade delegation to the trade delegation safely back home, but the flight home is Venezuela. Being a flight attendant doesn’t anything but effortless. Extreme weather conditions, serious come close to capitalizing on the skills Mac aircraft damage, wounded passengers, and unexpected guests has honed throughout his professional on the flight make for a harrowing trip flown by two 79-year-old career, but the seemingly routine flight takes an unexpected turn retired pilots. and gives Mac more than ample opportunity to prove his expertise Capt. Lee T. Levenson (FedEx, Ret.) has written a captivating in dealing with elusive, dangerous terrorists. narrative with intense plot lines that keep the reader’s interest at An airplane carrying Venezuelan President Matos goes miss- full throttle, masterfully pouring his political knowledge, aviation ing over Colombian airspace, providing an opportunity for Emilio acumen, creativity, and passion for intrigue into this novel.— Melian, commander of the Venezuelan Third Army, to stage Reviewed by Kari Cantrell, ALPA Communications Department

14 Air Line Pilot August 2014 The above descriptions of the Air Line Pilots Association PAC are not a solicitation to contribute to the PAC. Only ALPA members, ALPA executives, and senior administrative and professional staff personnel, and their immediate family members living in the same household, are eligible to contribute to ALPA-PAC. ALPA-PAC maintains and enforces a policy of refusing to accept contributions from any other source. ALPA members may learn more about ALPA-PAC and about contributing to ALPA-PAC by entering the members-only portion of www.alpa.org. August 2014 Air Line Pilot 15

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n ALPA Praises Canadian aggressively led efforts to and submit a Labour Market the committee to provide Government’s Overhaul of tighten the rules governing Impact Assessment (LMIA) ap- ALPA’s perspectives on TFWP the program under which plication a minimum of three safety management sys- On June 24, the Association Canadian airlines are able months before the first day tems and the safe carriage hailed the Canadian govern- to augment their crews with of work. The LMIA replaces of dangerous goods. ment’s announcement foreign pilots on a seasonal the Labour Market Opinion The committee has re- that it’s overhauling the basis. Most recently, ALPA as a more rigorous screening cently focused on these two Temporary Foreign Worker has been fully engaged in mechanism for employers subjects—both of which are Program (TFWP). On June the ESDC’s extensive review seeking to hire temporary top aviation safety priorities 20, Employment and Social of the program, which culmi- foreign workers. In addition, for the Association—as part Development Canada nated in the report. As one the costs for administering the of its ongoing review of the (ESDC) Minister Jason of the main stakeholders TFWP will be borne entirely by Canadian transportation Kenney and Citizenship and from government, labour, and employers who use the pro- safety regime. Adamus and Immigration Canada (CIC) industry, ALPA has actively gram. As a result, airlines will Rogers were joined on the Minister Chris Alexander participated in the review to have to pay a $1,000 LMIA fee panel by representatives released their report, ensure that Canadian pilots’ for every temporary foreign from the Air Canada Pilots “Overhauling the Temporary interests are considered in pilot position they request in Association and the Air Foreign Worker Program: reforms to this and other their application. Transport Association of Putting Canadians First,” programs under which foreign While the TFWP reforms Canada. detailing comprehensive pilots are hired. mark significant progress in Describing SMS as a reforms to the program. The TFWP changes for air- ALPA’s efforts to safeguard “comprehensive corporate These changes include lines went into effect on July members’ jobs, Adamus approach to safety that eliminating unnecessary and 1, 2014, and now eliminate emphasized, “We will continue involves both management discriminatory pilot-hiring an employer-created require- to work to bring well-trained, and employees,” Adamus practices and requiring that ment that pilot applicants be highly qualified Canadian cautioned that while most companies seeking to hire type-rated on a specific type pilots, who are currently unem- companies initiating SMS foreign pilots submit a plan of aircraft before they are ployed, back into the cockpit.” have adopted a safety culture to transition to a Canadian hired. “ALPA has long advo- from top to bottom, there workforce. cated for this change because n ALPA Talks Safety on have been some instances “By making these sweep- the type-rating requirement Parliament Hill in which employees who ing reforms, the Canadian effectively disqualified most “ALPA supports the effective brought forth safety concerns government has demon- otherwise qualified candi- implementation of safety or self-reported have still strated its commitment to dates, and enabled those management systems [SMS] been subject to disciplinary restoring the TFWP to its airlines to save on training in aviation companies action. He outlined specific original stated purpose: ‘as costs, thus giving them an regulated and certified by provisions essential to the a last and limited resource unfair economic advantage,” Transport Canada,” said successful implementation for employers when there Adamus explained. Capt. Dan Adamus (Jazz), of SMS, emphasizing that are no qualified Canadians Among the other key ALPA’s Canada Board “a reporting program must to fill available jobs,’” said changes welcomed by ALPA: president, in remarks before provide confidentiality and Capt. Dan Adamus (Jazz), airlines seeking to hire foreign the House of Commons immunity from discipline to president of ALPA’s Canada pilots must now submit a Standing Committee on be effective.” Board. “ALPA commends transition plan documenting Transport, Infrastructure, Rogers, who also the ESDC and CIC for help- their efforts and commitment and Communities (TRAN) chairs the International ing ensure that Canadian pi- to increase the number of on June 10. Adamus and F/O Federation of Air Line Pilots’ lots benefit from Canadian Canadian pilots they hire. They Mark Rogers (United), ALPA’s Associations’ Dangerous aviation opportunities.” also must meet a number Dangerous Goods Program Goods Committee, stressed For years, ALPA has of advertising requirements director, appeared before that the implementation of

16 Air Line Pilot August 2014 New ALPA Reps At an Envoy Air 83 meeting held on June18, F/O Kyle Flynn was elected as the interim first officer rep- resentative for the remainder of the term of office. At a Calm Air 213 meeting held on June 22, F/O Aaron Lanigan was elected to serve as the interim first officer representative for the remainder of the term of office. As of July 10, the Election Ballot and Certification Board certified election results for the following local councils: yy FedEx Express 79 F/O David Chase, Vice Chairman yy First Air 241 Capt. Stacey Tumoth, Chairman (Capt. Rep) yy First Air 241 F/O Joseph Ferreira, Vice Chairman (F/O Rep) yy First Air 241 PFE Michael McMullen, Secretary- Treasurer (PFE Rep) yy United 171 F/O Karl Jacobson, Secretary-Treasurer

From left: F/O Mark Rogers (United); MP Larry Miller, TRAN Committee chair; and Capt. Dan Adamus (Jazz). To read the latest On Investing OnInvestingSUMMER 2014 STRATEGIES & IDEAS FOR THE CHARLES SCHWAB COMMUNITY • magazine from Charles an effective SMS focused on and the full ICAO Council Schwab, go to www.schwab. the transportation of danger- recently approved the com/oninvesting. It’s an

Health Care Reform: added benefit for members ous goods—specifically the proposal, which will go into Who Will Owe Taxes? PAGE 12 The New transportation of lithium effect on Jan. 1, 2015. Mortgage through ALPA’s partnership Rules PAGE 24 The Fed: batteries—can improve However, he stressed A Time of with Charles Schwab & Co., Transition Ng PAGE 10 CHANgi aviation safety. “An effective that much more work TiMes Inc., as the Association’s What to expect at the Fed and from mortgage safety management system needs to be done. “ALPA and health care reforms preferred financial services involving dangerous goods believes Transport Canada provider. l 4/23/14 3:23 PM

would recognize the risk of should now take steps OI-Su14-Qrt2-C1 large quantities of lithium beyond those required dOI_SU14_C1_cover.indd 1 batteries aboard an aircraft by ICAO to ensure the Pilots for Pilots: instead of focusing the regu- promulgation of measures lations on the package level,” that will protect the public, Here to Help he said. flightcrew members, and This hurricane season, ALPA members and their A member of the other individuals…from remember that Pilots for families affected by hurri- International Civil Aviation the hazards currently as- Pilots (P4P) is ready to canes, wildfires, river flood- Organization’s (ICAO) sociated with the shipment provide relief for ALPA pilots ing, and other widespread Dangerous Goods Panel of lithium batteries by air,” and their families disasters. To learn (DGP), Rogers noted that the Rogers told the committee. who fall victim more about working group had recently “This action is necessary to widespread P4P, request recommended prohibiting for improving the overall disasters. In a grant, the carriage of lithium metal safety of air cargo opera- the years since or make a batteries as cargo on pas- tions and the protection of its creation, P4P contribution, senger aircraft—action he lives and property whenever (formerly known as visit www.alpa.org/ described as a “significant lithium batteries are moved the ALPA Emergency Relief relieffund. Contributions to safety step.” The ICAO Air through the air transporta- Fund) has provided financial the fund are tax-deductible Navigation Commission tion system.” l assistance to hundreds of in the United States. l

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Air Transat Wins Innovation Award in were incredibly supportive of this project as Sustainable Tourism well as the folks at the FAA for their assistance Air Transat is the proud winner of the Trophée throughout the process. We look forward to de l’Innovation (Innovation Award) from French seeing the aircraft on line and creating new magazine L’Écho Touristique in the “Sustainable opportunities to expand our E175 fleet.” Tourism” category for its ecofriendly disman- tling of end-of-life-cycle aircraft. This project, Hawaiian Airlines President and CEO Mark conducted in July 2013, saw two Airbus A310s Dunkerley Recognized for Leadership with dismantled in an environmentally responsible Airline Strategy Award and sustainable manner, with 87 percent of Hawaiian Airlines president and CEO Mark their components recovered. Dunkerley received the 2014 Airline Strategy “We are very proud of this award, which Award for Regional Leadership by Airline again ranks Air Transat as a leader in sustainable Business, selected by an independent panel development,” says Jean-François Lemay, general of industry experts. The award recognizes manager of Air Transat. “For the last seven years, Dunkerley’s role in transforming Hawaiian we have intensified our environmental manage- Airlines from a bankrupt niche U.S. carrier to a ment efforts through innovation, and the results strong and growing global player. show it. Even more important, our actions “Hawaiian’s 5,300 employees have lifted fall within the broader framework of a true the company’s fortunes and transformed the sustainable-development strategy throughout business from a small local carrier to a global the Transat group, guiding us toward the com- carrier with local roots over the course of the mon goal of becoming a model of responsibility last decade,” said Dunkerley. “It has been my in the travel sector worldwide.” privilege to have been a part of that story.”

Mesa Air Group Adds E175 to Certificate FedEx Corp. Announces Increase in Mesa Air Group, Inc. announced on June 9 that Quarterly Dividend it received approval from the FAA to add the The Board of Directors of FedEx Corporation Embraer E175 to its operating certificate, a declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.20 per critical accomplishment in its goal of having the share on FedEx Corporation common stock, a aircraft “on line on time.” $0.05 per share increase from the prior quarter’s Features include Mesa will begin its E-Jet operations this sum- dividend. The dividend was payable July 3, 2014, mer with the first of 30 aircraft scheduled for to stockholders of record at the close of business • cumulative tracking toward maximum fl ight– and duty–period delivery as part of its United Express operation. on June 19, 2014. hour limits “We are pleased to add this new-generation Consistently ranked among the world’s most aircraft to our fleet,” said Mesa Chairman and admired and trusted employers, FedEx inspires • tracking for augmented, unaugmented, reserve, and split CEO Jonathan Ornstein. “I would like to thank its more than 300,000 team members to remain duty fl ights all our people involved with the E-Jet program, “absolutely, positively” focused on safety, the especially project leader Mike Ferverda. Many highest ethical and professional standards, and • alerts for potential limit violations thanks to our friends at United Airlines who the needs of their customers and communities. • access to the FAR Part 117 regulation and ALPA’s Part 117 Guide

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The following quotes are compiled from congressional testimony, speeches, news clips, and other public documents. ALPA does not necessarily endorse these views but rather is OntheRecord informing members of recent statements by significant industry stakeholders.

“NAI’s proposal appears contrary to a key provision in our EU second-stage agreement that ensured new commercial opportunities created by the agreement could not be exploited to subvert labor standards and create an unfair competitive environment.” —commented Ray LaHood, former secretary of the Department of Transportation (DOT), about Norwegian Air International’s application to the DOT for a foreign air carrier permit in a June 26 The Hill blog post

“This conference is dedicated to the fact that partnership is critical to safety. Data sharing very clearly is the future of aviation safety. We depend on inputs from the professionals who have stepped forward, groups like ALPA, and the airlines themselves. It all depends on you, and I want to thank you for your willingness to step forward.” —remarked FAA Administrator Michael Huerta at ALPA’s June 16 Proactive Use of Data: International Progress Toward a Just Culture Symposium

“…[F]oreign airlines that receive bank subsidies compete head-to-head with U.S. airlines on hundreds of international routes to and from the United States…. The bank uses the full faith and credit of the United States to make those foreign airlines stronger, healthier competitors to the detriment of U.S. companies and their employees.” —testifiedDelta Air Lines’ CEO Richard Anderson on June 25 during the U.S. House Financial Services Committee’s hearing titled “Examining Reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank: Corporate Necessity or Corporate Welfare?”

“Consolidation of airlines is critical to sustainable air services. External investment is not a threat. It is an opportunity to strengthen airlines, and to support employment and economic growth.” —commented Etihad Airways President and CEO James Hogan on July 3 at a European Union conference in Vienna, Austria, on air transport competitiveness

“I believe that we have taken the appropriate measures to deal with the existing situation and not unnecessarily burden the traveling public. There remains a terrorist threat.” —said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on the July 6 edition of “Meet the Press” before the Transportation Security Administration’s announcement that it’s requiring airline passengers flying to the U.S. from some overseas airports to power up their electronic devices before airplane boarding or risk having to leave them behind

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n Airline Yields The number of airline seats available on international flights from the U.S. and Canada to Europe, Latin America, and the Pacific has Year-Over-Year Change in Total Atlantic Seats increased this summer, causing some concern about yields. Capacity discipline has been a key factor for airlines posting profits for the Air Transat A.T., Inc. Summer Season Swiss/Crossair last four years, so this increase—and its effects on financial per- Delta Air Lines American Airlines formance—is being watched closely. Certain U.S. network airlines United Airlines and foreign airlines have recently announced that some of their Virgin Atlantic Air France international yields have leveled off or dipped slightly. These an- Iberia nouncements contributed to a recent sell-off of airline stocks. Air Berlin Lufthansa Looking at data from OAG regarding flight schedules for summer, British Airways roughly defined as April through October, nearly 10 percent more SAS Alitalia seats are available going to Latin America, approximately 8 percent Aeroflot KLM more across the Atlantic, and nearly 5 percent more going to the Air Canada Pacific than last summer. While demand is still relatively strong, such US Airways Turkish Airlines large increases can dampen yields. Yields are the revenue received Aer Lingus for each passenger carried, and lower yields affect profits. When Icelandair there is additional capacity that is not filled, airlines sometimes offer -5.0% 0.0% 5.0% 10.0% 15.0% 20.0% 25.0% Source: OAG, E&FA Analysis. The top 20 airlines that account for more than 90 percent of seats to/from lower fares to fill that capacity, which leads to declining yields. the Atlantic region.

Airlines that depend on the high-yielding Atlantic seats will Total Available Seats feel the most pressure from added capacity. Delta receives Latin Atlantic Pacific approximately 18 percent of its total revenue from its Atlantic 10.0% operations, while United takes in 19 percent of its total revenue from Atlantic operations, according to the U.S. Bureau of 8.0% Transportation Statistics. American Airlines generates 15 percent of its revenue from Atlantic operations, and almost 20 percent of 6.0% its revenue is from Latin American operations.

4.0% Seats to and from the Pacific have increased as well, primarily from Asian airlines. United, the largest provider of seats to the 2.0% Pacific from the U.S. and Canada, has the biggest exposure to YOY Percent Change overcapacity in the Pacific, but others are feeling the yield effects 0.0% as well. United generates 15 percent of its revenue from Pacific op-

Summer 2011 Summer 2012 Summer 2013 Summer 2014 erations, but Hawaiian Airlines has an even greater concentration -2.0% at 31 percent. United scheduled 5 percent more seats this summer, Source: OAG, E&FA Analysis. Data are total seats to/from the U.S. and Canada. Atlantic is to/from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Pacific is to/from North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Southwest while Hawaiian, feeling the pressure, actually decreased its avail- Pacific. Latin is to/from Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. OAG defines summer as roughly April through October. able seats by 13 percent. The chart below shows the breakout of operating revenue for U.S. airlines by region for 2013. Some of the increase in the number of seats to Latin America is attributable to the World Cup (there was a 17 percent increase in Airline Domestic Atlantic Latin Pacific seats to Brazil), and this was more leisure than business flying, which American 56% 14% 25% 5% also affected yields. There have also been large increases in the number of seats available to the Caribbean and Central America. Delta 65% 18% 6% 11% The increase in available seats on the Atlantic has come mainly United 58% 19% 8% 15% from foreign airlines. Norwegian Air Shuttle, through its Norwegian Long Haul subsidiary, posted an 809 percent increase in seats from Alaska 95% 0% 5% 0% this summer to last, while Emirates had a 700 percent increase JetBlue 81% 0% 19% 0% in seats. Still, these two airlines make up only a fraction of the total seats on the Atlantic to the U.S. and Canada. British Airways Southwest 99% 0% 1% 0% increased its number of seats by 7 percent this summer, while Hawaiian 69% 0% 0% 31% Lufthansa (one of the airlines that expects its international yields to suffer from increased capacity) added nearly 300,000 more seats Spirit 89% 0% 11% 0% this summer compared to 2013. Atlantic yields are some of the most lucrative for many airlines, so many are trying to capitalize on that business by adding seats.

August 2014 Air Line Pilot 21 n In Memoriam “To fly west, my friend, is a flight we all must take for a final check.”—Author unknown

2012 Capt. Andy P. Brown Delta June Capt. R.A. “Bob” Smirnow United October Capt. James R. Cawley Delta June Capt. G.C. Gran Northwest June 2013 F/O Craig Groom FedEx June F/O George I. Stockstill Northwest October Capt. Ronald L. Hall Jazz June Capt. Paul J. Leonardo Jazz December Capt. H.D. Hull Delta June Capt. Paul M. Iuvone Eastern June 2014 Capt. Robert W. Kallies Delta June Capt. Ronald G. Anderson US Airways January Capt. John T. Lynch Delta June Capt. Floyd G. Carley United January Capt. James P. Millegan Delta June Capt. Harvey L. Griffith Eastern January Capt. Lawrence A. Mullaly Delta June Capt. R.L. Davis United March Capt. Scott A. Olson Sun Country June Capt. Steven L. McEwan United March Capt. George Panasuk TWA June Capt. Theodore P. Judd Eastern April Capt. Thomas L. Perillo Delta June F/O Eric M. Lemcke Air Transport International April Capt. R.P. Sabbagh Delta June Capt. James H. Shelton CommutAir April Capt. Rick L. Ward FedEx June Capt. Richard V. Fertal TWA May Capt. A.H. Wilson, Jr. United June F/O Lloyd B. Garriott TWA May Capt. Robert A. Byrd Delta July Capt. C. Ronald Mangino Northwest May Capt. Larry L. Hartman Continental July Capt. Robert W. Mudge Delta May Capt. Robert D. Kehs Northwest July Capt. Arthur A. Taylor Flying Tigers/FedEx May Capt. Kenneth W. Willrich TWA May n Compiled from information provided by ALPA’s Membership Capt. W.M. “Bill” Billingsley Delta June Administration Department

n ALPANegotiationsUpdate The following is a summary of the status of ALPA contract negotiations by airline as of June 27, 2014: Air Transport International—A Section 6 notice was re- ceived on Jan. 21, 2014. No additional dates are scheduled. Air Wisconsin—A Section 6 notice was filed on Oct. 1, 2010. Air Wisconsin filed for mediation on June 17, 2013. Mediation continues. Atlantic Southeast—A Section 6 notice was filed on May 20, 2010. A joint Atlantic Southeast/ExpressJet Section 6 notice was filed on March 28, 2011. The pilots rejected a tentative Capt. Bob Kehs (Northwest) after receiving the Behncke agreement on January 14. An application for joint mediation Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. was filed on Feb. 12, 2014. Mediation is under way. Capt. Bob Kehs Flies West Canadian North—Negotiations continue. ExpressJet—A Section 6 notice was filed on May 20, 2010. A ALPA sadly notes the passing of Capt. Bob Kehs (Northwest), joint Atlantic Southeast/ExpressJet Section 6 notice was filed one of the Association’s greats, on July 9 at age 78. on March 28, 2011. The pilots rejected a tentative agreement ALPA’s Board of Directors presented the first David L. on January 14. An application for joint mediation was filed Behncke Lifetime Achievement Award to Kehs in 2000 for on Feb. 12, 2014. Mediation continues. his efforts on behalf of ALPA members during and after his flying career. Kehs’s experience and expertise in collective FedEx Express—A Section 6 notice was filed on Jan. 22, bargaining and his tenacious manner during strike prepara- 2013. Negotiations continue August 4–5. tions provided invaluable help to numerous pilot groups Mesa—A Section 6 notice was filed on Sept. 10, 2010. that have, as a result, achieved stronger and more enforce- Negotiations continue August 25–27 and September 22–24. able contracts. Sun Country—A Section 6 notice was sent on Feb. 23, 2010. ALPA’s Executive Council established the David L. Sun Country filed for mediation on May 9, 2012. Mediation Behncke Lifetime Achievement Award to give special continues. l recognition to ALPA members who, during the course of their careers, make an extraordinary contribution to the Association, its members, and trade unionism. l

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2014-08-ATP-ALPA-FP.indd 1 6/2/14 7:30 AM Exact Change Needed At the Ex-Im Bank Reauthorization Key to Safeguarding U.S. Airline Pilots’ Jobs By ALPA Staff

ith the U.S. Export-Import own national governments, including Bank’s authorization expiring advantages such as low or nonexistent Won September 30, Congress corporate taxes, reduced regulatory re- has a prime opportunity to make policy quirements, and injection of state capi- changes at the export credit agency to tal into the company and the national help safeguard jobs for all U.S. workers. air transportation infrastructure. Adding But The Boeing Company is seeking to U.S. government support on top of the block the narrow, targeted reforms ur- benefits these airlines already receive gently needed to ensure that the bank’s from their own country severely skews financing decisions equally advance all the playing field against U.S. airlines U.S. companies’ ability to compete in- in a hyper-competitive global industry ternationally. ALPA is leading the call for where margins are razor-thin. Congress to act swiftly on a reauthoriza- Ex-Im Bank funding sets up U.S. tion that requires exact change at the “Congress can—and airlines’ foreign competitors to flood the Ex-Im Bank. international market with seats—known “Congress can—and must—capital- must—capitalize on the as “seat dumping.” The financing also ize on the bank’s reauthorization both bank’s reauthorization means that foreign airlines that already to reform its business practices and to both to reform its don’t play by the same rules because safeguard fair competition,” wrote Capt. of their home-country advantages Lee Moak, ALPA’s president, in a July business practices now also do business exempt from the 1 letter to the editor published by the and to safeguard fair normal capital market and economic Financial Times. competition.” factors that exert pressure on U.S. and European airlines. Ex-Im Bank financing: not pocket Capt. Lee Moak, ALPA president “International flying is crucial for U.S. change airlines. Tens of thousands of flightcrew ALPA has always strongly supported the members at the three largest U.S. car- Ex-Im Bank’s stated mission to assist in the tens of millions of dollars in savings riers fly in international operations, so financing the export of U.S. goods and that foreign airlines leverage to under- our jobs are directly at risk from this services to international markets. The cut U.S. airlines and their employees on competitive and inappropriate imbal- threat to U.S. airline pilots’ jobs, and the international routes. ance,” said Moak in testimony before union’s opposition, lies in the bank’s The marketplace distortion that the U.S. House Committee on Financial current practice of supplying below- results for U.S. airlines is particularly Services on June 25. “International jobs market financing for widebody airplanes egregious when the recipient of the at mainline carriers are in jeopardy, but that saves U.S. airlines’ competitors Ex-Im Bank’s cut-rate financing is a so are jobs at the small regional airports approximately $20 million over the life credit-worthy airline or one that is that are the ultimate U.S. destinations of a single aircraft. state-owned or state-supported. In these for these international passengers.” Considering this per-aircraft cost cases, the Ex-Im Bank grants financing At the hearing, which was titled savings in the context of recent air show to airlines that have no need for it, such “Examining Reauthorization of the mega-orders, the Ex-Im Bank’s below- as state-owned and already moneyed Export-Import Bank: Corporate market financing creates a staggering Emirates Airline and Etihad Airways. Necessity or Corporate Welfare?” Moak economic advantage for the airlines that Absent Ex-Im financing, these laid out to U.S. House lawmakers how receive it. But U.S. companies aren’t businesses already operate with a U.S. airlines have been forced to with- eligible for the financing and can’t reap formidable leg up provided by their draw from or not enter key international

24 Air Line Pilot August 2014 routes because of the Ex-Im Bank’s fi- U.S. goods and services internationally. Opportunity for reform nancing decisions. He gave the example In “Reauthorize the Ex-Im Bank to In ALPA’s letter to Congress, the union of state-owned Air India’s using Ex-Im Make Cents for All U.S. Businesses, underscored that “it is important that Bank-subsidized airplanes to flood the Not Just Boeing,” an opinion piece right now all parties engage in an open U.S.–India market, describing how, in published in The Hill newspaper on July and honest dialogue about what is at 2008, this excess capacity forced Delta 17, Moak stated, “Many of ALPA’s more stake and what needs to be done to Air Lines out of the New York–Mumbai than 50,000 members operate Boeing ensure that the bank is reauthorized market, displacing U.S. workers due to airplanes on the routes we fly, myself with targeted reforms and is not held unfair competition. included. We recognize that Boeing is hostage by a single company that is “[Those were] U.S. jobs that we lost a national asset and, along with all U.S. unwilling to even engage in compromise directly as a result of action by the Ex-Im manufacturers, plays a critical role in the discussions.” Bank,” said Moak to the committee. health of the economy and defense and Airlines contributed almost twice the in maintaining U.S. jobs.” economic activity and more than twice ALPA’s call for exact change from ALPA’s recommendation for practical the jobs of civil aerospace manufactur- the bank changes in the Ex-Im Bank’s financing ing in 2010. “If Boeing will advance the On July 10, Moak sent letters to mem- practices will advance fair competition throttle rather than stall the effort, the bers of both houses of Congress calling for all U.S. workers, including Boeing’s, United States can renew and refresh for them to institute Ex-Im Bank reform. while safeguarding U.S. airline industry our focus at the Ex-Im Bank to reflect The union has long underscored the jobs and continuing the bank’s work to business realities,” said Moak in The Hill need to ensure that the bank oper- promote U.S. products. The moderate opinion piece. “Together, we can create ates with maximum transparency and reforms will also position the bank to a reauthorization that helps to level the uses proper economic modeling, and assist a greater range of U.S. manufac- playing field for U.S. airlines, protects ALPA’s letters elaborated on the needed turers by expanding its limited resources U.S. aviation and manufacturing jobs, reforms, stating, “We believe straightfor- beyond the aviation sector, which cur- and expands export opportunities for U.S. ward reforms must include changes to rently dominates its financing focus. small businesses.” the statute to stop the bank from financ- ing widebody aircraft for credit-worthy foreign airlines and those that are state- Reform the Ex-Im Bank to Help subsidized or state-owned.” A Dallas Morning News story titled, All U.S. Businesses Compete “Air Line Pilots Association to Congress: Reauthorize the Ex-Im Bank, but Stop U.S. Airline Industry Supported Twice as Many Loans for Foreign Airlines,” reported in a Jobs as U.S. Aerospace Manufacturing in 2010 Biz Blog posting, “The letters are explicit reminders that airline industry opposi- 2.5M Airlines alone transporting both tion to the bank, touted as key voices in people and freight in 2010 $ 1.8% of the bank’s opponents’ campaign to end 190B all jobs contributed almost $190 billion it, is aimed at specific programs within 1.4% of GDP in gross domestic product (1.4 the bank’s portfolio and not to the bank percent of GDP) to the U.S. econ- as an institution.” omy as well as almost 2.5 million jobs (1.8 percent of all jobs) Reforming will add up for all U.S. workers The Boeing Company appears to be attempting to block any consideration of congressional action regarding moderate $ 98.5B Jobs Civil aerospace manufacturing reforms to the bank’s reauthorization. .7% of GDP 1.1M The aircraft manufacturer claims that (building and maintaining aircraft it will suffer financial harm without the systems, airframes, and engines) bank’s reauthorization; yet at the same contributed almost $98.5 billion in Gross domestic product Gross time, the company refuses to negotiate gross domestic product (.7 percent reforms that will help the U.S. credit of GDP) to the U.S. economy as export agency to use its resources to bet- well as 1.1 million jobs ter assist all U.S. businesses in marketing Source: Oxford Economics

August 2014 Air Line Pilot 25 A Celebration of Pilots Helping Get the Job Done S a f e l y & Securely

By John Perkinson, Staff Writer

afety and security considerations 31 pilot groups in the United States and Hot topics include are so fundamental to daily airline Canada serve as ALPA safety liaisons, ‹‹ tools and strategies for effectively S operations that each year ALPA networking directly with airports, airlines, responding to all-cargo, main-deck dedicates its Air Safety Forum to drawing aircraft manufacturers, government fires fueled by bulk shipments of needed attention to the industry’s most regulators, Congress, Parliament, and a lithium batteries. pressing concerns. This year’s forum, the host of other government and industry ‹‹ onboard emergency equipment 60th of its kind, celebrates the work of groups to effect positive change in the standards for addressing onboard ALPA’s safety, security, and pilot assis- aviation industry. smoke and fire. tance pilot representatives, highlighting The forum gathers those subject-matter the accomplishments they’ve made to experts, influential legislators and regula- ‹‹ optimizing decision-making in make your job safer and more secure, tors, and other airline and industry stake- high-stress and high-workload and what they’re still doing for you, to- holders in Washington, D.C., to discuss environments. day, to make the world’s safest air trans- today’s hot topics. Forum participants ‹‹ airport considerations for handling portation system even safer. will examine these challenges and policy aviation emergencies. ALPA’s Air Safety Organization consists considerations that, if left unattended, ‹‹ current security threats to both of hundreds of pilots, backed by the could easily upset the aviation com- airlines and their passengers, and Association’s professional staff, all work- munity’s goal of continuing to make air effective countermeasures. ing to improve aviation safety and securi- transportation the safety and most secure ty. Representatives from the Association’s transportation system in the world. ‹‹ global perspectives on key aviation safety issues around the world. ‹‹ pilot health and occupational safety issues. ‹‹ continuing efforts to modernize the U.S. national airspace system. Influential industry leaders like Paul Rinaldi, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, will walk forum attendees through 100 years of scheduled airline operations. Astronaut Garrett Reisman, a commercial crew pro- gram manager for SpaceX, will talk about today’s commercial space program. And Robert O’Neill, team leader with the Naval Warfare Development Group, will draw from his more than 400 combat missions in four different theaters of war to survey the factors that determine success in any endeavor.

26 Air Line Pilot August 2014 Then &Now By Jan W. Steenblik, Technical Editor

LPA’s Air Safety Forum culminates broader picture of what ALPA was working on a year-long series of single-topic 61 years ago. Aconferences, white paper distribu- Not surprisingly, while some aspects of the tions, government testimony, and advocacy airline industry have changed substantially campaigns the Association conducts in its since then, certain issues have proven peren- ongoing role as the world’s largest nongovern- nial, if not eternal. Let’s take a look: mental aviation safety organization. The As- sociation held its first such Air Safety Forum Just culture (originally billed as the Air Safety Congress) ALPA’s then second president, Capt. Clarence April 1–3 at the Sherry Hotel in Chicago, Ill., N. “Clancy” Sayen, wrote, “We conceive one less than 50 years after Wilbur and Orville of the primary safety functions of the airline Wright briefly took flight into the cold wind at pilot to be the discovery and reporting of air Kitty Hawk in their 1903 Flyer. safety problems. Anything that interrupts or That seminal forum, quickly followed interferes with the free flow of this informa- by ALPA local aviation safety conferences, tion in itself constitutes a hazard.” included presentations on a number of safety For an article titled “Crime and issues of the day, including Punishment,” the blurb read, “Teamwork and ‹‹ preventing inadvertent propeller Group Co-operation, Not Discipline Used reversing, Negatively as Punishment, Is Key to Safety.” ‹‹ the need to set rational aircraft perfor- That article and Sayen’s prescient declaration mance criteria, about discovering and reporting aviation ‹‹ emergency evacuation, safety problems presaged today’s era of the Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP), Flight ‹‹ cockpit standardization, Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA), and ‹‹ aircraft exterior lighting (for collision other voluntary, confidential, nonpunitive avoidance through improved aircraft aviation safety data-gathering and analysis pro- conspicuity), grams. Decades would pass before the North ‹‹ airport and approach lighting, American airline industry began to move away ‹‹ research on a terrain warning from punitive discipline to the concept of a indicator, “just culture” (see “At the Intersection of Data ‹‹ fire hazards, and and ‘Just Culture,’” page 31). The article “Report on Cockpit Procedures” ‹‹ airport vehicular lighting. noted that U.S. scheduled airlines had suffered But this relatively short list of airline safety 20 collisions with terrain during the previous topics only begins to show what concerned 10 years, so “looking toward standardization, ALPA members at the time. Then, as now, ALPA’s Cockpit Procedures Committee has been [The] Air Line Pilot conveyed the front-burner active for several years.” Again, crew resource issues to the union’s members. Reading management (CRM), threat and error manage-

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August 2014 Air Line Pilot 27 training (LOFT) were years away, along with with a global terrain database. But airliners still airline industry amalgamation of “best practices” come in contact with Earth somewhere other for a wide range of flight safety issues. But clearly than on a runway, for a variety of vexing reasons the need for those types of advances was well still needing solutions. understood more than 60 years ago. One reason is onboard smoke, fire, or fumes: In recent years, the threat of controlled A feature article, “Fire in Flight,” in the July 1953 flight into terrain (CFIT) has been substantially issue of The Air Line Pilot discussed the failure reduced with the advent of the ground proxim- of inflight automatic fire detectors—an issue ity warning system (GPWS) and its superior that lives on, one of many having to do with descendant, enhanced GPWS (EPGWS), with its inflight fire and smoke. This year’s forum will very precise GPS position reporting matched devote multiple panel discussions to various

Flight Operations Quality Assurance On the Shoulders Of Giants (FOQA) and the Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP), By Jan W. Steenblik, Technical Editor ‹‹ achieve airliner certification standards our union will cap the 60th ALPA Air This work has often required the stamina for cockpit design and layout; fuel Safety Forum by honoring the latest of of an ultra-marathon runner and more than system protection from lightning; several generations of ALPA pilots who a little patience. For example, bringing about stronger, more fire-resistant cabin seats Y and cabin interior materials; cockpit have helped their fellow flightcrew members federal certification standards for airline air- to get the job done safely and securely. ports—FAR Part 139—took 30 years; nearly weather radar; instrument compara- For the past 83 years, ALPA has either that much time passed between ALPA’s first tors; and other cockpit safety systems, worked single-handedly or played a key part push for an airborne collision avoidance ‹‹ develop newer, safer, more precise in government/industry cooperative efforts to system and when the traffic alerting and navigation procedures that increase improve aviation safety and security—in the collision avoidance system (TCAS) became efficiency and reduce flight time, fuel air and on the ground. To name just a few of required in airliner cockpits. burn, and noise, ALPA’s premiere safety and security accom- ‹‹ create the Critical Incident Response plishments, the Association was involved in Over the years, ALPA’s Air Safety, Security, and Program that provides peer support for Pilot Assistance Award recipients and their ‹‹ developing the first air traffic control flightcrew members who have experi- peers have made numerous and significant centers, enced challenging events in or outside contributions, including helping to ‹‹ implementing stringent One Level of the cockpit, ‹‹ create the Federal Flight Deck Officer Safety regulations that affect all airline ‹‹ create and implement new science- (FFDO) program, passengers (covering all airliners with based flight, duty, and rest regula- 10 passenger seats or more), ‹‹ set more stringent qualifications for tions, and airline first officers, ‹‹ creating improved regulations cover- ‹‹ create new minimum training and ing passenger airliner emergency ‹‹ create and implement the Known qualification standards for pilots who evacuations, Crewmember (KCM) program, the risk- serve in FAR Part 121 airline service. based screening system that enables ‹‹ forming federally mandated anti- The 74 pilots whose names you see here Transportation Security Administration hijacking strategies, were recognized by their peers for their con- security officers to positively verify the tributions to making air transportation safer ‹‹ developing safer procedures for trans- identity and employment status of and more secure or to help their fellow pilots porting hazardous materials aboard flightcrew members, in times of crisis. Some have flown west, airliners, and ‹‹ develop and administer voluntary, some are enjoying their retirement, and some ‹‹ developing airline safety management confidential, self-disclosure aviation are still working hard to achieve ALPA’s safety systems in Canada. safety reporting programs such as goals. We salute them all!

28 Air Line Pilot August 2014 aspects of the continuing threat of inflight fire decried America’s lagging behind the Brits in and smoke. this respect; the line pilots raised several areas of safety concerns. Their recognition of the Jets value of proceeding cautiously was borne out In 1953, the coming of the civil jet age in the by a series of accidents, including three inflight United States was a big deal; British Overseas breakups laid to structural fatigue, involving Airways had already flown the first scheduled the ill-fated early Comets. jet passenger service (London to Johannesburg A news item picked up from Aviation Week in a de Havilland Comet) the previous year reported the flawed prediction that, within and was expanding its international jet service. the next seven years, “coinciding with the

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ALPA Air Safety Award Capt. Louis M. McNair (Delta) 1976 Capt. Robert Sumwalt (US Airways) 2004 Recipients Capt. W.W. Melvin (Delta) 1977 Capt. Lindsay Fenwick (Northwest) 2005 Capt. Ernest A. Cutrell (American) 1957 Capt. John Stefanki (United) 1978 Capt. Robert Perkins (Jazz) 2006 Capt. John D. Smith (Capital) 1958 Capt. Al Harris (Eastern) 1979 Capt. Terry McVenes (US Airways) 2007 Capt. R.A. Stone (United) 1959 Capt. Joe Oliver (Delta) 1980 Capt. Dave Wells (FedEx) 2008 Capt. L.H. Mouden (Braniff) 1959 Capt. Bud Ruddy (United) 1981 Capt. Ray Gelinas (Jazz Air) 2009 Capt. E.R. Watson (Eastern) 1960 Capt. Dick Deeds (Western) 1982 Capt. Pete Frey (Delta) 2010 Capt. J.L. DeCelles (TWA) 1960 F/O Jack D. Howell (Eastern) 1983 Capt. William “Bill” de Groh (American Eagle) 2011 Capt. B.V. Hewes (Delta) 1961 Capt. Patrick Clyne (Northwest) 1984 F/O Mark Rogers (United) 2012 Capt. W.L. Collier (Pan American) 1961 Capt. James McIntyre (TWA) 1985 Capt. E.J. Bechtold (Eastern) 1962 Capt. Dan Donovan (Republic) 1986 ALPA Aviation Security Capt. R.N. Buck (TWA) 1963 Capt. Mel Hoagland (United) 1987 Award Recipients Capt. Paul A. Soderlind (Northwest) 1964 Capt. David J. Haase (TWA) 1988 Capt. Ron Silberman (Northwest) 2006 Capt. John R. McDonald (United) 1965 Capt. R. Dick Russell (United) 1989 Capt. Ed Folsom (United) 2007 Capt. Joseph W. Meek (Delta) 1966 Capt. Ted Selken (Pan American) 1990 Capt. Craig Hall (Jazz Air) 2008 Capt. Raymond C. Gerber Capt. Dave Fitzgerald (United) 1991 Capt. Bill McReynolds (FedEx) 2009 (Pan American) 1967 Capt. Paul McCarthy (Delta) 1992 Capt. Robert Hesselbein (Delta) 2010 Capt. Richard H. Beck (TWA) 1968 Capt. D.B. Robinson (United) 1993 Capt. Everett Reese (ExpressJet) 2011 Capt. Donald A. Heine (North Central) 1969 Capt. Thomas J. Kreamer (US Airways) 1994 F/O Wolfgang Koch (Delta) 2012 Capt. Lee E. Hines (Eastern) 1970 Capt. Richard B. Duxbury (Northwest) 1995 Capt. Gene Banning (Pan American) 1971 Capt. Wood A. Lockhart (United) 1996 ALPA Pilot Assistance Capt. W.W. Betts (Braniff) 1971 Capt. John M. Cox (US Airways) 1997 Award Recipients Capt. John Lux (FedEx) 2008 Capt. William T. Alford (Braniff) 1972 Capt. David R. Smith (Alaska) 1998 F/O Richard Capt. Donald Dunn (Ozark) 1973 Capt. Raymond R. Brice (United) 1999 Wilkening (American Eagle) 2009 Capt. James Eckols (Ozark) 1973 Capt. Kenneth R. Adams, Jr. (Delta) 2000 F/O Madeline Capt. Robert N. Rockwell (Northwest) 1974 Capt. Mack Moore (United) 2001 “Mimi” Tompkins (Hawaiian) 2010 Capt. H. Ray Lahr (United) 1975 Capt. Tom Phillips (US Airways) 2002 Capt. Thomas O’Toole (Jazz Air) 2011 Capt. Frank L. Houston (Northwest) 1976 Capt. Mitchell Serber (Comair) 2003 Capt. John Kohne (FedEx) 2012

August 2014 Air Line Pilot 29 pilot group’s eighth—adopted a resolution that the recently adopted ICAO phonetic alphabet (“Alpha, Bravo, Charlie”) be discon- tinued and the prior “Able, Baker, Charlie” alphabet be reinstated during an interim study period, because the new alphabet had proven to be “unsuitable for world wide application.” The group also adopted a resolution that set distance-from-runway standards for NDBs associated with ILS installations, and another urging “that all pilots’ seats immediately be equipped with shoulder straps stressed together with the seat attachments to with- stand severe deceleration forces.” In the interest of standardizing holding patterns, the delegates adopted a resolution recommending that the “race-track pattern be adopted at all airports.” Security A feature article in the November 1953 issue of The Air Line Pilot, “Pilots’ Security Problems, Today and Tomorrow,” dealt not with aviation security, but with life insurance, ALPA’s in-house insurance programs, and pilots’ financial security. The days and years of homesick Cuban refugees, D.B. Cooper, ports in the United States,” these thirsty new Cooper copycats, Mideast terrorists, and airplanes would be refueled in flight! other miscreants hijacking airliners were yet Meanwhile, ALPA representatives and to come.

Photo: AP/Wide World Photos staff were very involved with manufacturers But the Cold War was very much under in discussing and evaluating new airliners way, and a brief item, “Continued CIRVIS and operational changes—from operation Cooperation Asked,” in the October issue of the Convair CV-240 radial-engined twin at noted, “The Air Force has again asked that increased gross weight to the coming of the all ALPA members cooperate in the CIRVIS sleek, fast Douglas DC-7. program. CIRVIS is communications instruc- ALPA president Sayen served on the Joint tions for world-wide reporting of vital intel- Communications Electronics Committee of the ligence sightings from aircraft.” For example, Joint Chiefs of Staff that urged development “(1) Guided missiles, (2) Unidentified Flying of an air traffic control secondary surveillance Objects [why they deserved capitalization (i.e., transponder-based) radar system and shall remain a mystery], (3) Submarines, proposed specifications for it. (4) Group or groups of military vessels, (5) Only three years later, a United DC-7 would Formation of aircraft which appear to be collide with a TWA Super Constellation over directed against the United States, its territo- the Grand Canyon, leading to the Federal ries, or possessions.” Aviation Act of 1958 and creation of the FAA. In other words, “See something, say something.” IFALPA meeting The Cold War ended, and the CIRVIS During the week of April 6, 1953, program is history. The threat focus shift- ALPA hosted its first conference of the ed; today, the airline industry is a potential International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ direct target in ways it wasn’t in 1953, Associations (IFALPA), when pilot delegates but a multilayered system of defenses from 14 nations met to discuss subjects of involving ALPA members and a host of mutual interest. government and industry allies keeps our The IFALPA conference—the international air transportation system secure. 30 Air Line Pilot August 2014 At the Intersection of Data and “Just Culture”

ALPA hosts an international More than 100 additional uled airline transportation. symposium on “just culture” and participants from 29 coun- “The membership of CAST aviation safety data sharing tries attended via webcast. reads like a ‘who’s who’ of “If you walk away with aviation,” Gilligan noted, “in- art of our problem,” ex- one thing and one thing cluding ALPA, of course.” plained Capt. Paul Morrell only from what it is I have The Association also is “P (American), “is knowing what to say this morning,” said an active supporter of the to look for, and where. FAA Administrator Michael Aviation Safety Information “For example,” he continued, “we were Huerta, the keynote speaker, Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS) looking at rotation rates on takeoff. We “let it be this: the data has to government-industry col- discovered a few ‘one-offs’—only three come from you. It is important laboration that serves as a Capt. Sean Cassidy, or four events per year—involving pilots that you keep providing it.” central conduit for exchanging ALPA first vice president raising the flaps, instead of the landing Distinguished panelists from safety information among its and national safety gear, right after takeoff. We didn’t even Canada, Europe, and the members. ALPA sits on several coordinator know this was happening.” United States expanded on levels of the ASIAS governance Such is the power—and the chal- varying issues, including fundamental structure, which helps provide direction lenge—of optimally using the enormous concerns regarding use and misuse of data for programs using aggregate data. amount of data that flows these days gathered through voluntary, confidential from voluntary, confidential, nonpunitive self-reporting safety programs, which need Gathering data aviation safety data-gathering and analy- to be resolved. Mark Millam, managing director of sis programs to tease out safety issues Capt. Sean Cassidy, ALPA’s first vice safety for Airlines for America (A4A), said, before they cause incidents or accidents. president and national safety coordinator, “Most airlines today have voluntary data declared, “In particular, I’d like to thank programs; the overwhelming majority our friends in the FAA for their long- of reports reveal an issue not otherwise standing commitment to sharing and detectable. Some reports expose potential proactive use of safety data. It has not areas for safety improvement not related been easy for them as a regulator to face to errors…. Maintenance is the fastest- many of the challenges of defining and growing area of reporting.” overseeing these programs, but they have Millam summarized, “Knowing is better worked with stakeholders throughout the than not knowing. Protection of data will aviation industry to make it work.” always be a concern. We’re all accountable Peggy Gilligan, FAA associate admin- to reduce risk.” Capt. Paul Morrell (American) istrator for aviation safety, reviewed the John Duncan, FAA’s director of flight These programs, such as Flight history of aviation data sharing, emphasiz- standards, observed that the Aviation Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) ing, “We’ve written it together.” She talked Safety Reporting System (ASRS), FOQA, and the Aviation Safety Action Program about the Commercial Aviation Safety ASAP, ASIAS, and other aviation voluntary (ASAP), have made enormous contribu- Team (CAST), formed data-gathering and tions to improving airline safety in North in 1998 with the lofty analysis programs are America, and similar efforts are taking goal of reducing the “universally considered root on other continents. On June 16, scheduled airline fatality successful.” He added, ALPA brought together in Washington, rate in the United States “We’ll never know how D.C., more than 100 aviation safety repre- by 80 percent by 2008. many events were sentatives and government and industry This goal was not only prevented by these leaders from around the world to discuss met but exceeded—the programs.” how to further data-sharing efforts at industry achieved an 83 Capt. John Illson, chief the Proactive Use of Data: International percent reduction of the Peggy Gilligan, FAA associate of integrated safety man- administrator for aviation safety Progress Toward a Just Culture Symposium. fatality risk in U.S. sched- agement in the  August 2014 Air Line Pilot 31 International Civil Aviation Organization’s next day to discuss recommendations from group of stakeholders, including airlines (ICAO) Air Navigation Bureau, declared, the ICAO Safety Information Protection and pilots, to develop an agreement “We set the standards, but we’re not a Task Force Panel (SIPTF), a group of 55 regarding how safety data can be used. regulator. Our goal is standardization—or experts from 27 states and international Capt. Kevin Hiatt, senior vice president at least harmonization—of data-sharing organizations formed in January 2010. of safety and flight operations for the programs. We see tremendous benefit in Ken Quinn, FSF general counsel and International Air Transport Association building on what has been done here.” co-chair of SIPTF, was blunt: “I hate to (IATA), advised that IATA is establishing an Illson cautioned, however, that the 191 tell you,” he said, “but there’s little or integral data warehouse, Global Aviation ICAO member states have 191 no [legal] protection for all Data Management, to allow comprehen- different legal systems and this data you’re collecting. sive analyses of safety data. “Among our that building international We’ve been leaving out two 240+ member airlines,” he concluded, consensus thus takes time. very important [groups of] “we’re seeing a lot of interest and activity.” Dr. Hassan Shahidi, director players—prosecutors and Capt. Paul Morell, vice president of aviation safety for MITRE, plaintiffs.” of safety, security, and environmental described a study being jointly Quinn also discussed the programs for American Airlines and CAST conducted by the nonprofit “chilling effect” of a civil suit co-chair, noted, “We’re trying to do two Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) brought as a result of the things—make people aware of the safety and MITRE to explore the 2006 Comair takeoff crash enhancements and measure how many feasibility of developing data in Lexington, Ky., in which mitigations have been implemented.” sharing in the Asia-Pacific Capt. John Illson, chief, the judge allowed ASAP and He added, “Benchmarks are extremely (APAC) region. Just culture integrated safety FOQA data to be admitted as important; with ASIAS, we can compare in the APAC context, Shahidi management, ICAO evidence. our airline to the aggregate.” noted, involves several Air Navigation Bureau FSF, said Quinn, has made Capt. Brian Crawford, director of safety, interesting issues, not the least of which this issue a critical priority, because “we quality, and environment for ExpressJet, are “long-standing and diverse legal and should have protections in place, rather declared, “Without data, all you have is societal structures.” The study report is than fighting over these boundaries in the opinions.” He noted in support of ongoing to be delivered in Bangkok, Thailand, in terrible context of an accident.” efforts to mature the use of information September. David Deveau, vice president of safety, collected that ExpressJet has “tons of During a Q&A session, Capt. Nick quality, and environment at Jazz Aviation, data—[but we can be] data-rich, intel-poor.” Seemel (Jazz), his pilot group’s central air offered a different perspective “through Dana Schulze, deputy director of the safety chairman and ALPA national Safety the lens of an SMS airline. For us, SMS has NTSB’s Office of Aviation Safety, said Management Systems (SMS) programs been a tool, a framework that’s given us the safety board’s mission is proactive, director, commented, “We see inconsis- the structure to define what’s proper use “We just do it through a reactive process, tencies in how airlines and regulators and misuse [of data]. SMS accident investigation… respond to reports—for example, at some gives people the education, [which] sometimes… airlines, a report never leads to a 709 ride; the training, the process. reveals cause-and-effect at other airlines, it happens all the time.” We worked out the rules relationships that weren’t A4A’s Millam replied, “I think we’ve of the road regarding apparent before. Accident made great strides in advertising the non- appropriate use through investigation is critical to punitive aspects,” but acknowledged that SMS before we started get at the heart of where “training can be perceived as punitive.” FOQA; we didn’t have to problems lie—e.g., were The FAA’s Duncan added, “Over the rediscover how to protect Dana Schulze, deputy director, they inherent in the SOPs long term, there’s never been a technical the data.” NTSB Office of Aviation Safety or were line employees not issue we couldn’t resolve [with these F/O Juan Carlos Lozano, former chair- following the SOPs?” voluntary programs]. Fundamentally, it’s man of the IFALPA Accident Analysis and In November 2012, the NTSB signed a people issue—the level of trust. With Prevention Committee, warned, “Many a memorandum of understanding with SMS, we cannot survive as a community people are confusing the tool with the ob- ASIAS; the latter’s data, Schulze pointed without improving the level of trust.” jective—data is the tool, not the objective. out, “can help [the safety board] write ICAO’s Illson opined, “We have to build “Some countries are going too far,” he more focused recommendations and get trust, but we also have to demonstrate continued. “Regarding required report- them to the at-risk community faster.” benefit.” ing and voluntary reporting, the line is That goal—focused, data-driven recom- blurred, and everything must be reported. mendations that lead to risk mitigations

Use and misuse of data Forcing the front-end users to report is for the airline industry and further improve Photos: Chris Weaver During a panel discussion of use and not necessarily improving safety.” its extraordinary safety record—is one misuse of data, Illson said the ICAO Air Lozano said that the European Aviation all aviation safety practitioners can em- Navigation Commission would meet the Safety Agency has established a working brace.—Jan W. Steenblik, Technical Editor 32 Air Line Pilot August 2014 HealthWatch

Diabetes: Beating the Disease (Part 2) By F/O Raymond Crews (Delta)

n Part 1 (see “Health Watch,” July, page 32), I discussed being Don’t wait to take action. diagnosed with diabetes and its effects on my life and my fly- To get altitude and airspeed as fast as possible, you’ll need Iing career. Now I’d like to offer some advice about what to do both throttles: exercise and nutrition. With just one or the other, after you’ve been diagnosed with the condition to ensure your you won’t have enough rudder to stay on course. best health and a possible return to flying. Your symptoms resembled diabetes: excessive thirst, frequent Engine One: Exercise urination, lethargy, and blurred vision, so you checked your blood Diabetes is a two-headed demon. Insulin resistance and insulin sugar two hours after a meal and it exceeded 180mg/dl. You deficiency are both factors. The human body needs insulin to called ALPA’s Aeromedical Office and were advised to see a doc- signal cells to accept energy (via glucose or sugar). Insulin resis- tor other than an aviation medical examiner (AME). After some tance makes it difficult for the glucose to get into the cells. Insulin tests, the doctor confirmed that you have diabetes. You called serves as a “key,” but for diabetics, the “keyhole” is obstructed by your company to be placed on sick leave. Now you’re doing your fat coating the cell membranes. One great way to eliminate fat is best to improve your health during the six-month observation exercise. And I mean at least 20 minutes every day. period that the FAA requires. Or are you? First, what are your goals? Let me suggest some: 1) preventing Engine Two: Nutrition the progression of the disease, 2) reversing the damage already In the current vernacular, most Americans’ diet is termed “SAD,” done, and 3) doing it quickly! or the “standard American diet.” This means high carbs and Do you need some motivation? Let me help. protein with very little nutrient value. You’ve heard it before, but If you progress to insulin-dependency, I’ll say it again: Eat more vegetables! you will be relegated to disability—the end ALPA members can contact “Greens and beans” should be your new of your flying career (at least in the U.S.). the Aeromedical Office at mantra. Eat fruits and nuts next; fish and 303-341-4435, Monday to That’s not bad enough? How about fat-free dairy less frequently; poultry, eggs, Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. amputation of an appendage, loss of mountain time, or at www. and oil occasionally; and anything else eyesight, weekly dialysis, increased risk of AviationMedicine.com. only rarely, if at all. I highly recommend cardiovascular disease, and maybe even For more information on aeromedical issues, scan the QR code. reading The End of Diabetes by Dr. Joel

©istockphoto.com/richcano premature death? This disease is a killer. Fuhrman for a good guide.  August 2014 Air Line Pilot 33 Some tools to include in your Since my pancreas is not producing a measureable amount of diabetes flight kit: insulin (verified by a C-peptide test), I may require supplemental insulin for the rest of my life, but 90 percent of diabetics produce A continuous blood glucose monitor enough insulin on their own. When in the learning stage, at least, I can’t recommend this I currently have therapy for four hours every five weeks. enough. There is no better way to see how your body responds Initially my therapy sessions were more frequent, but as my cel- to food and exercise than to see results every five minutes lular metabolism improved they became less frequent. For (you can accomplish this by using certain types of my part, I just sit in a recliner with an IV. By the way, monitors). If you’re only testing your blood sugar a many insurance policies do cover this treatment. few times a day, it’s good to know how low and (Even if they didn’t, I would argue that this how high the readings are. treatment can save your flying career as well as your health.) Simulator training By this, I mean pancreatic simulation. Only A good blender a few places in the world offer this, and I’ve I’ll be the first to admit that eating healthy been going to a clinic in Shreveport, La. can be a challenge in this day and age, but Pancreatic simulation is a way to stimu- a good blender can make getting all the late the liver. Since pancreatic function in right nutrients in sufficient quantity easier. diabetics is compromised, the pancreas does Each morning, I fill my blender with a variety of not produce the signal required to properly acti- vegetables, seeds, berries, etc., and then I drink my vate the liver. If the liver is not signaled to manufacture “smoothie” throughout the day. the proper enzymes, cellular metabolism is compromised. This means cells throughout the body are dying from starvation. A good doctor Subsequently, diabetic complications occur. High blood sugar When I say “good,” I mean one who uses “improvement” as the is not the problem with diabetes—it’s merely a symptom. watchword, and not “maintenance.” Why hobble around, merely in- Improper cellular metabolism is the problem. creasing dosages the rest of your life, when improvement is clearly Pancreatic simulation retrains the liver. Once the liver begins attainable for at least 90 percent of the diabetic population? to perform normally, proper cellular metabolism allows cell Find someone who truly believes diabetes is preventable function to return. I’ve witnessed several people who had this and reversible. Even those of us with a severely compromised therapy for less than a year return to their jobs, rid themselves of pancreas can live much more fulfilling lives with proper diet and walkers, or have seemingly incurable wounds healed. In my own exercise. Seek a physician who shares this sentiment and is will- case, blood sugar is trending lower, insulin dosages are smaller, ing to push and encourage you to reach your health goals. blood pressure is lower, etc. In fact, my metabolic panels indicate excellence in every area other than A1C (which I’m working to Running shoes improve as well). Nothing beats exercise! Dr. Fuhrman’s notes that “even five extra Of course, if cellular metabolism is working properly, the body can pounds on a normal body frame can lead to diabetes.” Why? rid itself of fat stores more easily and insulin resistance is reduced. Because any extra fat can lead to covering the insulin receptors This decreases the need for insulin and antidiabetic medicines. on the body’s cells. If insulin can’t get into the receptors, glucose can’t get into the cells. Find an exercise program you can stick with, and commit to Treatments and technology for diabetes requiring exercising every day. I still remember many miles of walking through airport terminals instead of lying down on a recliner in insulin for control are evolving rapidly. Pilots with the crew lounge. Use your time between flights to preserve your this disease are encouraged to discuss all options health and your career!

related to their individual condition with a physician A positive attitude experienced in diabetes management and their When I started my airline training, I remember the instructor insurance company for coverage eligibility. Neither telling us, “We can train anyone to fly, but we can’t change ALPA nor ALPA’s Aeromedical Office endorses any their attitude.” This part is up to you. No matter how much you learn about this page: ©istockphoto.com/redhumv ©istockphoto.com/redhumv this page: specific treatment for medical conditions. Contact how diabetes and its subsequent complications can often be ALPA’s Aeromedical Office for the latest information prevented, it’s got to be your decision. This may be the longest on aviation medical standards and treatments that flight you make on this earth, but the rewards are worth it! If you decide to “land early,” do so because you chose to, not be- the FAA allows. cause you didn’t know there was a procedure that could resolve the emergency. 34 Air Line Pilot August 2014 OurStories www.alpa.org/ourstories FedEx Pilots Race Across America— On Bikes

By John Perkinson Staff Writer

light crews traverse continents every day, but imagine swapping Fyour aircraft for bicycles to cover the same distance. That’s what two FedEx Express pilots did in late spring this year, participating in Race Across America (RAAM), one of the world’s pre- miere biking endurance competitions. Capts. Mike Snuffer and Dave Jones set out on June 14 with two Southwest Air- lines pilots as members of Team 4 Gone, which biked in support of Operation Comfort, an organization that assists members of the military who were wounded in Afghanistan and Left, Snuffer demonstrates his climbing skills. Above, Jones Iraq, and are receiving treatment at service hospitals in the San enjoys a section of level pavement. Antonio, Tex., area. The quartet collectively pedaled 3,020 miles on a journey that would transport them from Oceanside, Calif., to period of sleep you’d get at any one time was about two hours,” the finish line in Annapolis, Md. observing that RAAM also becomes an exercise in managing Unlike the Tour de France, RAAM is not a series of heats but sleep deprivation. one big race against time, and participants compete individually Snuffer’s forte is climbing, a strength that paid off for the or as members of two-, four-, or eight-person teams. Snuffer, a team as they negotiated the undulating altitudes of the Rocky FedEx Express MD-11 pilot and line check airman, biked as a Mountains. Jones, a strong “time trialer,” said that he averaged be- member of Team 4 Gone in 2011 and remembers just how gruel- tween 32 to 33 miles per hour in the flatlands of eastern Colorado. ing that particular event was. “After two days, one of our team- Unfortunately, riding conditions deteriorated, and heat and mates was injured when he was hit by a truck,” Snuffer recalls. humidity hampered the group as it passed through Missouri The other three completed the remaining 2,000 miles on their and much of the Midwest. Further complicating matters, Jones’ own. The three-time ironman triathlon competitor added that, health deteriorated. fortunately, there were no other serious mishaps. “I started feeling poorly in Missouri,” says Jones. “I had a fever Joining Snuffer for his first RAAM was Dave Jones, a FedEx and couldn’t sleep. It turns out I had a urinary tract infection.” Express B-777 pilot, who says he lost 10 pounds during the race. Jones also suffered from heat stroke and dehydration, and would An avid triathlon participant, Jones says he “blew out” his Achilles need to be transferred to a hospital in Jefferson City. The other tendon seven or eight years ago and has restricted his athletic three continued on. pursuits to bike races. He describes RAAM as “one of the hardest Miraculously, Jones recovered with a combination of anti- things I’ve ever done, but also one of the most rewarding.” biotics and a heavy dose of intravenous fluids and caught up In addition to the two Southwest pilot bikers, this year’s Team with the team nearly 30 hours later. 4 Gone included an RV, a 15-passenger van, and a small group The foursome endured a steady rain in Ohio and West Virginia. of supporters. As the race began, only one team member would On the final day of the trek, a head-on car collision sent event ride at a time. Two bikers would alternate, riding for 20 minutes organizers scrambling to find alternative routes for the competi- then resting for 20 minutes, for a four-hour period. The resting tors to take as they progressed through Maryland. And seven days, biker would ride in the pursuing van. The two would then board three hours, and eight minutes after the ride began, Team 4 Gone the RV, and the other two teammates would take turns riding crossed the finish line in Annapolis. for the next four hours. This system Snuffer and Jones are already thinking ensured that everyone contributed six More Info about competing in Race Across America hours of pedaling a day. To learn more about Team 4 Gone, visit again, this time with an all-FedEx Express Snuffer says, “In the RV, you’d get a www.team4gone.com. To learn more about pilot team. “Maybe in two or three years,” meal. You’d get cleaned up, and you’d Operation Comfort, visit operationcomfort.org. says Jones. “Or maybe we’ll come to our try to get some sleep. The longest senses,” chuckles Snuffer.

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With nearly 45 percent of the bank’s portfolio tied to one company, widebody aircraft financing reform tops the list of items to address. In 2013, the Ex-Im Bank approved $7.9 billion in financing for U.S.-made airliners, operated by U.S. airlines’ competitors—including Etihad Airways and Norwegian Air Shuttle, creating an economic advantage of more than $3 million per airplane per year. Given the record aircraft orders at the Dubai Airshow in 2013, it is imperative that ALPA is successful in changing the way the bank does business with state-subsidized competitors. Read more about the reforms to the bank that help level the playing field for pilots. Airline jobs are at stake.

Senate Vote to Deny NAI Coming This Week On Monday, June 9, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously voted to side with ALPA and Deny NAI. Now the fight moves to the U.S. Senate and all ALPA members are encouraged to participate in our new Call to Action for ALPA members and the general public urging senators to vote for the Klobuchar- Coats-Schatz-Blunt Amendment.

Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Dan Coats (R-IN), Brian Schatz (D-HI), and Roy Blunt (R-MO) plan to introduce an amendment to the Senate’s FY 2015 Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations Act (THUD) when the bill reaches the floor sometime the week of June 16, which would mirror the successful Deny NAI amendment that passed the House last week. The Westmoreland-DeFazio Amendment to the House THUD bill simply reiterates current law, mandating that in order for the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to approve a foreign air carrier permit, it must 1) be in the U.S. public interest and 2) comply with Article 17 bis of the U.S.-EU Air Transport Agreement, which prevents airlines from moving from one EU country to another for the purpose of evading labor laws.

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36 Air Line Pilot August 2014 B oe in g photo Safety Front and Center

The early days of air travel were fraught with danger for pilots and their passengers. Today, flying is the world’s safest mode of transportation—due in large part to the efforts of ALPA’s Air Safety Organization and its dedicated pilot volunteers and staff. The Association has fought for proper airport lighting and signage, improvements to the design of transport-category airliners, one level of safety for all revenue airline operations, and science-based flight-time/ duty-time regulations, to name just a few. ALPA’s commitment to safety throughout the decades is highlighted in this montage of past Air Line Pilot covers.

August 2014 Air Line Pilot 37 ALPA Resources and Contact Numbers

National OfficersFor complete biographical information on ALPA’s national officers, visit www.alpa.org or scan the QR code below.

Capt. William Couette Capt. Randy Helling Capt. Lee Moak Capt. Sean Cassidy Vice President– Vice President– President First Vice President Administration/Secretary Finance/Treasurer

Executive Vice Presidents For more information on which pilot groups executive vice presidents represent, visit www.alpa.org/evp.

Capt. Paul Stuart, Jr. Capt. Dan Adamus F/O Michael Hamilton Capt. Tim Canoll F/O Scott Smetana Alaska, Endeavor Air, Air Transat, Bearskin, Calm Air, United Executive Administrator F/O William Hanna Canadian North, CanJet, First Air, Jazz Delta JetBlue, Piedmont, Air Wisconsin, CommutAir, Aviation, Kelowna Flightcraft, Wasaya F/O Todd Ortscheid Capt. Thomas Maxwell Spirit ExpressJet, Hawaiian, AirTran, Air Transport Capt. Larry Beck Atlantic Southeast, Island Air, Trans States Capt. Joe DePete Compass, Envoy Air, FedEx Express International, PSA United Mesa Air Group, Sun Country

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The following ALPA resources may be Computer Help Line ([email protected]) Membership Administration reached by e-mail or by dialing, toll-free, 703-689-4357 ([email protected]) 1-888-359-2572 (1-888-FLY-ALPA). Once con- Council Services ([email protected]) 1-888-359-2572 (1-888-FLY-ALPA), nected, press the # key on your phone and 703-689-4311 option 3 dial the last four digits of the number listed Discipline and Discharge ([email protected]) IT Operations and Services ([email protected]) below. However, the ALPA Main Number, 703-689-4226 703-689-4245 ASPEN, the Membership and Insurance toll- free number, and Membership Administra- Economic and Financial Analysis Organizing ([email protected]) tion numbers need to be dialed directly. ([email protected]) 703-689-4289 703-689-4179 Accident Investigation ([email protected]) Election Dates LEC/MEC 703-689-4212 Publishing and Design Services 703-689-4312 Engineering and Air Safety ([email protected]) ([email protected]) 703-481-4441 Accounting and Finance ([email protected]) 703-689-4200 Purchasing ([email protected]) 703-689-4144 FAA Enforcement or Medical Certificate Action 703-689-4319 Air Line Pilot ([email protected]) ([email protected]) 703-689-4226 Representation ([email protected]) 703-481-4460 Government Affairs 703-689-4375 ALPA Aeromedical Office 303-341-4435 ([email protected]) 202-797-4033 Real Estate ([email protected]) ALPA Main Number 703-689-2270 Human Resources 703-689-4105 ALPA‑PAC 202-797-4033 ([email protected]) 703-689-4262 Retirement and Insurance ([email protected]) ASPEN 703-689-4220 Information Technology and Services 703-689-4115 ([email protected]) 703-689-4237 Capt. Tim Canoll Balloting ([email protected]) 703-689-4173 Strategic Member Development and Executive Administrator Cashiering ([email protected]) Legal ([email protected]) 202-797-4096 Resources ([email protected]) 703-481-4467 703-689-4385 703-689-4326 System Board of Adjustment Communications ([email protected]) Membership Insurance ([email protected]) ([email protected]) 703-689-4226 703-481-4440 1-800-746-2572

Membership Administration

To obtain membership account information Kelowna Flightcraft–KFC MEC Spirit–SPA MEC 765-481-9033 or to update your records or your postal or 250-878-7950 Sun Country–SCA MEC 952-853-2393 e-mail address via the Internet, go to the My Mesa–MAG MEC 602-306-1116 ALPA area of Crewroom.alpa.org; or dial the Trans States–TSA MEC 610-805-5387 toll-free number 1-888-359-2572 (1-888-FLY- *North American–NAA MEC 513-257-7662 United–UAL MEC 847-292-1700 ALPA) and choose menu option 3. Piedmont–PDT MEC 339-987-1277 Wasaya–WSG MEC 807-624-7270 Listed below are the telephone numbers PSA–PSA MEC 616-405-3962 *Pilot group in custodianship of MEC offices. *AirTran–ATN MEC 770-823-6734 Air Transat–TSC MEC 1-888-337-2033 Air Line Pilot is printed in the United States and published for professional airline pilots in the United States and Air Transport International–ATI MEC Canada who are members of the Air Line Pilots Associa- 505-263-8838 Director of Communications Cathy St. Denis tion, International. ALPA Headquarters: 1625 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Air Wisconsin–ARW MEC 1-800-ALPA-ARW Editor in Chief sharon B. Vereb Technical Editor Jan W. Steenblik Washington, DC 20036 Alaska–ALA MEC 206-241-3138 Associate Managing Editor susan Fager Postmaster: Send address changes to Air Line Pilot, PO Box 1169, Herndon, VA 20172-1169. Atlantic Southeast–ASA MEC Supervisor, Creative Services Kelly M. Barrett 404-209-8566 Staff Writer John Perkinson Canadian Publications Mail Agreement #40620579: Return undeliverable magazines sent to Canadian ad- Senior Advocacy Writer Linda Shotwell Bearskin–BRS MEC 807-628-5683 dresses to 2835 Kew Drive, Windsor, ON, Canada N8T 3B7. Supervisor, Content Strategy molly Martin Calm Air–CMA MEC 204-471-1000 Supervisor, Multimedia Productions Eric Davis Canadian North–CNP MEC 780-718-6012 ePublishing Editor Jesica Ferry Other Organizations CanJet–CJA MEC 1-800-959-1751 Magazine/Graphic Designer Susan Boulter ALPA Aeromedical Office 303-341-4435 Contributing Graphic Artists ALPA Federal Credit Union 1-800-747-2349 *Comair–CMR MEC 703-481-5560 Kim Agnew, Jesica Ferry, Mary Ann Walsh CommutAir–CMT MEC 440-985-8579 Web Coordinators Cicely Jenkins, ALPA Accident/Incident Hotline Chris Weaver Compass–CPZ MEC 952-853-2373 If you are involved in an accident, incident, or alleged ——— violation of a federal aviation regulation, contact your Delta–DAL MEC 404-763-4925 General Manager Lori Garver local or central air safety chairman, regional safety Endeavor Air–PCL MEC 855-PCL-ALPA Managing Director, Government and chairman, or the worldwide ALPA accident/incident Public Affairs michael Robbins hotline at 202-797-4180 (collect calls are accepted) for Envoy Air–ENY MEC 817-685-7474 Air Line Pilot is not responsible for un­solicited manu­ an immediate response 24 hours per day. As a backup scripts, photographs, or other ma­te­r­ials. Unsolicited number, call 703-892-4180. *Evergreen–EIA MEC 503-474-3880 materials will be re­turned only if submitted with a self- to report a safety problem or airspace system defi­ ExpressJet–XJT MEC 281-987-3636 addressed, stamped envelope. Opinions expressed by ciency, call 1-800-424-2470 or e-mail [email protected]. authors do not necessarily represent official ALPA FedEx Express–FDX MEC 901-752-8749 position or policy. 2014 EBCB Schedule First Air–FAB MEC 1-877-459-3272 Subscriptions: Subscription rate for pilot members,­ $27.50, included in ALPA member­ship dues; for The Association’s Election and Ballot Certification Hawaiian–HAL MEC 808-836-2572 students, $41; for U.S. nonmembers, Board’s schedule for counting ballots is August 11, $55; for foreign, $71.50. Residents September 10, October 10, November 10, and Island Air–AIS MEC 808-838-0188 of the state of Washington must add December 10. 8.8 percent sales tax. To subscribe online go to www. Any ALPA member in good standing may be present Jazz Aviation–JAZ MEC 1-800-561-9576 alpa.org/subscriptions or call 703-481-4460. as an observer during any meeting. Contact the Associa- JetBlue–JBU MEC 803-360-8338 To report address changes, call 703-689-4311. tion’s Membership and Council Services Department Address Changes for Members Only: E-mail to for scheduling. [email protected].

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