AUGUST 2014 n OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION, INTERNATIONAL Our Living History ALPA’s Pi lot Volunteers Page 26 Follow us on Twitter PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. PRINTED IN @wearealpa 2 Air Line Pilot August 2014 ADP80654-01_G21413_1b.ai ADP80654-01-x1a-OP Revised.pdf 07.10.2014 Live: 7 x 9.958 Trim: 8.25 x 10.875 jn Bleed: 8.5 x 11.125 August 2014 • Volume 83, Number 8 7 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. 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August 2014 Air Line Pilot 3 Ex-Im Bank reform— How one ALPA pilot ALPA’s Air Safety Have bike, will race It’s all about the is helping to fulfill a Forum—then and (for charity). jobs! boy’s wish. now. Page 35 Page 24 Page 12 Page 26 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.