Fellow pilot,
First and foremost the USAPA Safety Committee volunteers have in place an incident/accident protocol that will ensure that all pilots are provided unambiguous guidance as well as legal and contractual protections should an incident/accident occur the moment the election results are final.
On the first day USAPA becomes our union a phone call to the USAPA safety hotline by the involved pilot, from anywhere we fly, will trigger a procedure that will result in an immediate return call to the pilot from USAPA. Our union will provide the crew additional legal and union actions for the specific incident/accident while the USAPA Safety and legal team members travel to the site. By utilizing this advice as well as the incident/accident protocol, our crews will be assured the same protections they have always had as we transition to the USAPA Safety structure.
This protocol will be printed and distributed to each US Airways pilot as soon as it is legally permissible to do so.
The USAPA Safety Committee has garnered the full support of the Safety Committees of the Allied Pilots Association, Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, and the UPS Pilots Association. Those organizations have pledged to provide us with any assets, training, or technical expertise they possess as we transition and build the USAPA Safety structure utilizing the numerous safety experts we have here at our airline. USAPA also has the option to join the Coalition of Airline Pilots Association which is made up of all the independent pilots unions and the Flight Safety Foundation both of which can further our safety network. Including US Airways, CAPA would comprise over 28,000 pilots.
Our USAPA Safety Committee is made up of pilots who have many years of expertise both within as well as outside of the ALPA Safety structure. Many have been to ALPA safety training and will utilize that proficiency to continue and improve the fine tradition of safety that ALPA has provided. In our profession safety always trumps politics. In that vein we fully expect to utilize all of the expertise we have at our disposal regardless of political views. Safety isn’t about East vs. West or USAPA vs. ALPA. Safety is common ground and we will make certain to utilize all sources of expertise available to us both on and off this property just as other independent pilot unions do.
The USAPA Safety Committee isn’t going to reinvent the wheel. We don’t need to. We are going to maintain, improve, and expand the numerous safety policies and procedures already in place. We look forward to working with all of our pilots. For the Safety of our pilots and of our proud profession.
Safety Chairman Tom Kubik
Safety Co-Chairman Larry McCarroll
