Also: Record Keeping Regulation, Electric Aircraft Symposium, Drone/UAV Rule, FedEx Pilots
In a move certain to foment increased informational picketing outside the hubs and headquarters of its competitors, American Airlines has offered its pilots pay increases of up to $64,000. The move sets a new benchmark in the cash-grab into which the post-COVID airline industry has descended. American Airlines CEO Robert Isom has outlined a proposal entailing a 16.9% pay-raise for the carrier’s fourteen-thousand pilots. This could be your next trainer… Elektra Solar has successfully test-flown the Elektra Trainer, the company’s two-seat, electric, ultralight aircraft. With test-pilot Uwe Nortmann at the controls, the Elektra Trainer prototype departed Memmingen International Airport in southern Germany on 29 June. The aircraft rose, silently and sans-emissions, after an impressively brief, one-hundred-meter takeoff roll, and climbed at a brisk, eight-meters per second and remained aloft for twenty minutes. The Airline Pilot Club and Skyborne Airline Academy have formed a partnership with the goal of providing aspiring airline pilots professional guidance and high-quality, theoretical, and practical training. The Airline Pilot Club (APC) is a community of aspiring pilots, newly qualified pilots, flying schools and airlines about the noble endeavor of increasing accessibility to flight training and pilot careers. All this — and MORE in today’s episode of Airborne!!!
This episode of Airborne-Flight Training 07.07.22 is chock full of info in this Daily News Episode, Thursday, July 7th, 2022… Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Host Holland Lee. Holland is supported by ANN Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, as well as ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell. This episode covers:
American Airlines Offers Pilots Significant Pay Increases
Elektra Trainer Impresses During Maiden Flight
New, Airline Pilot Club / Skyborne Air Academy Partnership Offers Pathway
NBAA Granted Limited Relief From Record Keeping Regulation
Electric Aircraft Symposium Returns
EAA Objects to ‘Controversial’ Drone/UAV Rule Making Report
FedEx Pilots to Management: Now Is the Time to Deliver for Us
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Don't be surprised if the AA pilots turn down the pay offer. The initial raise doesn't even make up for inflation-related losses over the last couple of years, and if inflation continues at current levels the pilots will fall even further behind. It's nice to see that AA management is aware they have a problem to address, but they — and managements across the industry — need to dig much deeper.