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ALPA not for industrial action
After over 2,000 airline pilots from across the country came together under one umbrella body called the Air Line Pilots Association...
Written by Express News Service
Mumbai | April 14, 2010 12:47 AM IST
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After over 2,000 airline pilots from across the country came together under one umbrella body called the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA),the association announced that its objective was not to threaten airline managements.
Speaking on the key objectives of the pilots body,a senior ALPA member said that its primary aim was to capitalise on the vast technical resources available with the pilots which would be aimed solely at improving air safety. ALPA has not been formed for the purpose of threatening airline managements but to raise the standards of Indian pilots, said the member when asked whether last years pilots strike at Jet Airways and Air India were the reasons for formation of the umbrella body.
The formation of ALPA was made possible following an agreement between erstwhile Air Indias Indian Pilots Guild (IPG),erstwhile Indian Airlines Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA),Jet Airways Society for Welfare of Indian Pilots (SWIP) and Kingfisher Airlines Integrated Pilots Welfare Association (IPWA) to make the umbrella organisation. The recently formed apex body known,as ALPA-India is one of the biggest in South Asia,according to a press statement. The total number of commercial pilots registered in India is about 4,500.
With the formation of APLA,it will now be this apex body which will become a member body of the International Federation of Air Line Pilots Association (IFALPA) the global airline pilots body with over 100,000 member pilots.
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