And some international support which we're very pleased about. Thanks guys
Urgent Call to all ALPA Pilots: Informational Picket on Saturday to support British Airways Pilots Fight against Alter-ego Airline
Picketing Events on Saturday, March 15 in Los Angeles, Newark, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.
Join ALPA pilots who are informational picketing this Saturday, March 15, to demonstrate staunch solidarity with British Airways (BA) pilots who are protesting their managements attempt to start a new airline without using pilots from the BA seniority list. The stakes are high for all airline pilots.
OpenSkies will operate directly between European points outside the United Kingdom and the United States. BA management is starting OpenSkies using BA airliners, the BA brand, and BA profits that are the result of BA pilots professionalism, but management wont use BA pilots.
Just as New York Air was the first alter-ego challenge in the U.S. after airline deregulation, OpenSkies is the first alter-ego challenge for European pilots after the first-stage US/EU Open Skies agreement. If BA is successful, it would mean that the hard-earned benefits contractually guaranteed to those who have invested the most in their airlines could be lost. And if it is successful, other European airlines will surely follow suit.
BA pilots deserve and demand access to OpenSkies flying;a right they have earned as partners in BAs success. Join pilots across the country and around the globe on March 15.
When: Saturday, March 15
2:00 pm 4:00 pm local time
Where: International terminal at:
John F. Kennedy Intl Airport **8:00 am & Noon local time
Los Angeles Intl Airport
Newark Intl Airport
San Francisco Intl Airport
Seattle-Tacoma Intl Airport
Washington Dulles Intl Airport