from the
BALPA wakeup site:
On Monday 30th September the Transport and Tourism Committee in the European Parliament voted to REJECT the EU’s Flight Time Limitations proposals. But the full European Parliament will now vote on the same issue on Wednesday 9th October - and there is hard work to be done to ensure they don’t reverse the Transport Committee’s vote.
The vote on 9th October will be by all MEPs on whether to adopt or reject the FTL proposals. It will require a majority of THE WHOLE PARLIAMENT to uphold the Committee’s vote. In other words, half of all the Members of the European Parliament need to show up and vote for rejection, if less than half turn, up it doesn’t matter what they vote, the proposals will go through. This is going to be tough. The rules are being forced through the Parliament by a ruthless and determined EU Commission who have utterly failed pilots and passengers. They need to be stopped.
This is the final countdown for BALPA members. We may have won a battle amongst the experts in the Transport and Tourism Committee, but members must now take this small window of opportunity to influence their own respective MEPs ahead of the plenary session. BALPA will be lobbying MEPs directly, but we need you to tell your own MEPs how you want them to vote.
Cathar, it is not the fact that anyone objects to there being a vote, but the indecent haste and vote regime that required 50%+1 votes to uphold the rejection of the proposals. Note also the timing of the debate and vote to be 1 day before a planned Air Traffic Control [almost] Eurpe-wide strike which will doubtless see many MEP's leaving the Parliament to return for the weekend before the vote takes place!