Strengthening the Profession

Just as no other pilot union can match ALPA's influence on policy and industry activities at the national level, no other pilot union can approach ALPA's stature in relations with global airline affiliations and foreign governments.

In 1992, ALPA responded to the need to defend the airline piloting profession by creating a Global Pilot Strategy and, subsequently, the International Pilot Services Corporation. The airline industry has recognized the Association's expertise in such areas as analyzing corporate financial and business plans, restructuring negotiations, evaluating the economics of contracts, devising industrial and negotiating strategies, solving problems in areas such as operations and scheduling, promoting aviation safety and investigating accidents.

By using ALPA's resources to participate more directly and globally in issues germane to the Association's representational responsibilities--preserving and enhancing global pilot standards in the areas of wages, working conditions, and other contractual issues in the collective bargaining process--only ALPA is able to reduce the negative effects of global whipsawing, particularly among global airline system pilot groups, to benefit your and the airline piloting profession at large.