Air Line Pilots Association International

Government affairs: as the voice of professional airline pilots, the association represents a pilot partisan agenda to congress and to many administrative agencies, including the department of transportation, federal aviation administration, department of state, department of homeland security, and transportation security administration. Key legislative issues for pilots in 2024 were the pending faa reauthorization legislation and the safety threat from the global push to remove pilots from the flight deck.

Aviation safety: alpa maintains a network of hundreds of pilot volunteers, supported by more than two dozen staff professionals, organized into an extensive structure of local and national committees. Key safety issues in 2024 included: maintaining at least two pilots in the flight deck, aircraft certification, pilot fatigue, pilot mental health, pilot training and qualification, airport and runway safety, integration of unmanned aircraft and commercial space activities in the national airspace, various improvements to aviation security and pilot and passenger screening, safety management systems, and responding to and supporting accident investigations.