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This is your MEC chairman, Marcin
Kolodziejczyk, with an update for Dec. 16,
2011.
Right now, your MEC is focused on wrapping
up business for the year and planning for
2012. We met via teleconference yesterday to
discuss a number of items, administrative
and otherwise. Of note, we are significantly
under budget for the year. Such fiscal
responsibility is a credit to this MEC and
its committees. Your ALPA volunteers have
done a phenomenal job working to protect
your careers and your contractual rights,
negotiate improvements to our contract,
promote the highest level of safety at our
airline and elsewhere, address any issues
that pop up, keep you informed every step of
the way, and much, much more. And, despite
the holiday season now upon us, the work
hasn’t slowed a bit. If you see one of your
ALPA volunteers on the line, please thank
them for their dedicated service to this
union. We are always looking for more help,
so let us know if you would like to get
involved.
Also this week was ALPA’s fee-for-departure
carrier teleconference. This is a forum
where we collaborate on issues affecting our
industry. Participants received updates from
various MECs on what is happening at their
airlines. EGL, for example, provided a
general overview of the challenges they are
facing in bankruptcy. Given our own recent
exit from bankruptcy, we are continuing to
support the EGL MEC and provide them with
information about our experiences while
going through this process. ALPA President
Capt. Lee Moak was also on the call and
provided an update on issues affecting
pilots on a global scale.
Despite the recent AMR bankruptcy filing,
now is a good time to be a professional
airline pilot. Just look at the number of
mainline, cargo, and regional carriers that
are currently hiring or have aggressive
hiring programs beginning in January. We
have worked diligently over the past couple
of years to provide our furloughed pilots
with information on career options, airline
hiring events, and so forth. We are pleased
that some of our furloughs will soon have an
opportunity to return to Mesa. We also
encourage you to check out FltOps.com and
other resources to stay informed about your
career. These excellent websites provide
information on pilot recruiting events,
hiring projections, contract comparisons,
fleet projections, upgrade timetables, and
so forth.
That’s it for this week. Happy holidays!
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