You should all now know that four of our fellow pilot’s employment here at FedEx has been terminated pending appeal to the VP of Flight in the next few weeks. They will of course fight their terminations in every way possible, and the Association will support them to the greatest extent possible as we are forced toward arbitration. Since this issue first surfaced, countless hours and considerable... Read More...

The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) is hoping it can get some airline industry members to support a new bill that would force cargo carriers to comply with the FAA’s new crew rest requirements for pilots when they take effect in early 2014. Michael Robbins, ALPA’s director of government affairs, says he expects it will take some time to build congressional support for the bill, which was intro... Read More...

Are Macs being more actively attacked? In the wake of the Flashback malware outbreak that successfully infected over 600,000 Macs, security watchers have declared that cyber-crime rings and nation states have begun to more actively target Macs.   Read More...

A freshman House member who used to fly planes for Northwest Airlines is getting a boost from a major pilots union for his bill that would require the Federal Aviation Administration to equalize anti-fatigue rest rules for passenger and cargo pilots.

 One of the largest shipping companies is criticizing an effort to apply Federal Aviation Administration scheduling rules for avoiding fatigue among commercial airline pilots to pilots flying cargo airplanes. Read More...

  A Pinnacle Airlines Canadair CRJ-200 on behalf of Delta Airlines, registration N8980A performing flight 9E-4290/DL-4290 from Toronto,ON (Canada) to Minneapolis,MN (USA) with 44 passengers, was enroute at FL280 about 80nm east of Traverse City,MI (USA) when a Lithium battery powering a device on a passenger's chest caught fire. While cabin crew extinguished the fire and provided first aid t... Read More...

(Reuters) - A sleepy Air Canada pilot first mistook the planet Venus for an aircraft, and then sent his airliner diving toward the Atlantic to prevent an imaginary collision with another plane, an official report said on Monday. Read More...

(Reuters) - A strong holiday season and mild winter helped FedEx Corp beat Wall Street's profit forecast, but the world's No. 2 package delivery company warned that it had lowered its outlook for the rest of this year due to tepid economic growth. Read More...

Today, the MEC elected Captain John Cardaci as your MEC V ice Chairman. Captain Cardaci’s term begins immediately and he will serve until the term ends on June 30, 2013. The MEC would like to congratulate Captain Cardaci and thank First Officer Aaron Hagan for stepping up to run for this position.

There is no language in the new FAR 117 restricting commuting.   There is a requirement to report to work Fit for Duty, as there is in the current 121 regulations. That being said, you should be mindful of the fact that records of commuting may be accessible to the company under certain circumstances.

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