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  • EASA launches new survey: share your experience on how working conditions affect safety

  • EU study highlights aviation safety concerns linked to regulatory social gaps

    Press release
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    01 October 2025
  • Artificial Intelligence in Civil Aviation

    Position paper
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    15 September 2025
  • Wet-leasing: faults, flaws & call to action

    Stories
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    01 July 2025
  • Wet-leasing: faults, flaws & call to action

    Campaign
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    01 July 2025

News

EASA's new survey

EASA launches new survey: share your experience on how working conditions affect safety

Every day, pilots across Europe face challenges that go far beyond the flight deck. From supportive environments & strong corporate safety cultures to unstable contracts and constant commercial pressure, each experience tells part of a bigger story about aviation safety.  
Oct 21, 2025
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EU study highlights aviation safety concerns linked to regulatory social gaps

Brussels | Ghent 1 Oct 2025 – A pilot or cabin crew’s contract shouldn’t be a safety risk but too often, it still is. A major new EU study warns that precarious jobs in aviation are undermining both the well-being of crew and the safety culture of airlines. Ten years after Ghent University
Press release
Oct 01, 2025
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Europe’s hidden pilot fatigue crisis

This summer, millions of Europeans will board planes expecting to be carried across skies by highly trained, well-rested professionals. But the blunt reality is that behind the cockpit door, many pilots are exhausted.

Editorial
Jul 07, 2025
2025 Wet-Lease trends: Growth, gaps, and abuses

2025 Wet-Lease trends: Growth, gaps, and abuses

The European wet-leasing (ACMI) market is growing fast. Between 2024 and 2025, wet-lease activity in Europe nearly doubled – more aircraft, more providers, more flights. But with this growth comes a darker reality: More ACMI means more opportunities for workers' abuse.

News article
Jul 01, 2025
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Positions

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On the Exclusive Use of Performance-Based Navigation from 2030

As the EU is moving towards mandatory exclusive use of PBN from 2030, significant safety issues as well as technical, operational, and regulatory challenges have emerged.
 

Nov 14, 2025
ECA Position Paper on Performance-Based Navigation
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On the Revision of the Air Services Regulation

The long-awaited revision of Air Services Regulation (Regulation 1008/2008) has made a new turn since the arrival of the new Commissioner for Transport, Apostolos Tzitzikostas.

Nov 12, 2025
ECA Position Paper on the Revision of the Air Services Regulation
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Flights Over or Near Conflict Zones

This publication demonstrates the ECA's position on avoiding flying over or near conflict zones and provides recommendations in the event that airlines consider to conduct operations near or over conflict zones.

Oct 27, 2025
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Protecting Pilots Against UV-A Radiation

This paper raises awareness about UV-A exposure in the cockpit as a workplace risk, linked to health issues such as cataracts and skin cancer. ECA urges the inclusion of UV safety measures in occupational health policies, crew training, and certification of UV-blocking cockpit windows.

Oct 27, 2025
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Campaigns

Flying tired is not safe: 2025 Summer Campaign for European Pilots

Flying tired is not safe: 2025 Summer Campaign for European Pilots

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Commander’s Discretion

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Europe’s hidden pilot fatigue crisis

FRMS

Fatigue Risk Management in Europe

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about us

About us

Created in 1991, the European Cockpit Association is the representative body of European pilots at EU level. 

 

our members

Our members

We represent over 40,000 pilots from the national pilot associations in 36 European states.

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Expertise

We are a recognised social partner and make every effort to ensure that aviation safety is in the driving principle of future European rules.

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The European Cockpit Association represents the collective interests of professional pilots at European level, striving for the highest levels of aviation safety and fostering social rights and quality employment.

 

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