Air Line Pilots Association International

With a busy summer travel season ahead, some pilot contracts remain under negotiation.

Invoking a clause in their current collective bargaining agreement, Air Canada’s pilots have decided to open contract negotiations a year early.

With just hours to spare before a work stoppage could begin, WestJet Group and its pilots reached a tentative agreement on a contract.

Air Canada has become ALPA's 40th pilot group, growing the union’s representation ranks to more than 73,000 members.

Summer readiness is something United Airlines says it is not taking lightly.

The carrier’s pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), issued a 72-hour strike notice on the evening of May 15.

Progress is being made in contract negotiations between WestJet and ALPA-represented pilots, as the potential for a work stoppage nears.

A near-unanimous vote from pilots represented by the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA) has authorized potential strike action.

Depending upon the source, the aviation industry is either desperately short of cockpit crewmembers or has more than enough.

Sunwing Vacations and Sunwing Airlines will bring 18 Boeing 737s to the combined fleet, though initially the companies will continue independent operations.

In the concept of single-pilot operations, a pilot may spend long phases of flight, if not the entire flight, alone in the cockpit of a commercial aircraft.

As forecasts project a continuing pilot shortage, some U.S. airlines are beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel.

Industry stakeholders are being urged to go back to the basics to help minimize mistakes.

The “industry-leading” contract increases attention on the other U.S. “Big Four” as negotiations with their pilots continue.

Some in the airline industry want to remove pilots from the flight deck, increasing risk to the public and placing the safest mode of transportation in jeopardy

Daylighting mental health issues is critically important to aviation safety.

Spirit Airlines pilots have voted to ratify a new collective bargaining agreement, which includes provisions in case the ULCC's merger with JetBlue collapses.

The Air Line Pilots Association has told lawmakers that certifying the 737-7 and 737-10 without new flight crew altering systems is preferable to forcing Boeing to upgrade the last two 737 MAX family variants.

Long-term, we must improve equity and access to pilot careers, where the cost and inaccessibility of training is a top barrier

Air Line Pilots Association, International President Capt. Joseph DePete on the necessity of upholding federal regulations that strengthened airline pilot qualification, training, and experience requirements.

U.S. pilot unions are joining airlines and manufacturers in opposing a potential coronavirus test requirement for domestic U.S. airline passengers, though a mandate to move forward with the proposal does not seem imminent.

Pilots at Delta Air Lines have approved an agreement to avoid furloughs of more than 1,700 pilots scheduled for the end of November.

Delta Air Lines has reached a tentative deal with the union representing its pilots to avoid more than 1,900 previously planned furloughs through at least January 2022.

Pilots at United Airlines approved two agreements related to voluntary leave and early retirement, as airline executives and labor unions scramble to

United Airlines and its pilot union reached two tentative agreements related to early retirement and voluntary leave packages, as the two sides look to limit the scope of involuntary furloughs this fall.