This is one of the previous research projects done by Ghent University, Social law department: University of Ghent study on Atypical Employment in Aviation (2015) -Y. Jorens, D. Gillis, L. Valcke & J. De Coninck, ‘Atypical Forms of Employment in the Aviation Sector’, European Social Dialogue, European Commission, 2015.
Results used and presented before the European Commission, European Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee for Civil Aviation.
I will give some main conclusions of this research in a few posts.Via the means of a completed survey aimed at pilots, which resulted in both quantitative and qualitative data from 6633 respondents, an overview was obtained of the contemporary forms of atypical employment relations in aviation and the effects these have.
In total, 6633 respondents participated in this study. 15.1% of respondents indicated that they are French, 15% Dutch and 11.1% to have British nationality. The largest group of respondents gave stated that they are between 30 and 40 years old (30%) and that they have more than 10 years (<1000 flight hours) of flight experience (63%). The data shows that certain age groups have a much higher chance to work for certain types of airlines, for example more respondents from the younger age categories reported to fly for a Low-Fare Airline (LFA). Next to that, the largest group of respondents in this study stated that they work for a network airline (45%). The second largest group of respondents indicated they fly for an LFA. The top 5 of airlines that the respondents reported to work for is as follows: 1. Ryanair, 2. Air France, 3. KLM, 4. SAS, 5. Easyjet.