Tag: pilots
How Do Fighter Pilots Understand Danger?
The locking of anti-aircraft systems onto warplanes indicates a critical situation for pilots. How can pilots be aware of the situation in these dangerous moments? In locations where air superiority…
Why Do Construction Equipment Operators Get the Same Salary as Pilots?
Construction equipment operators, who are as important as engineers in the construction industry, earn almost as much salary as a pilot. So what’s the reason for this? We asked someone…
Airport Where Only 24 Pilots Are Allowed to Land
Paro Airport has many unique features that distinguish it from other airports, but the most interesting of these is that only 24 pilots can land and take off from here!…
Lack of staff and long working hours – the risks are growing in air traffic
Lufthansa Airbus A380 In order to be able to meet the high demand for tickets, Lufthansa has even reactivated the double-decker. The summer of 2023 is a major effort for…
Why Do Airplane Pilots Always Wear the Same Type of Sunglasses?
Designed for the first time in the 1930s, pilot goggles continue to maintain their shape nearly 100 years ago, despite huge changes in the aviation industry and technology. This is…
Lufthansa presents pilots with a new offer
Frankfurt Lufthansa management has presented the pilots of the core brand Lufthansa Airlines and the freight subsidiary Lufthansa Cargo with a new offer in the wage conflict that has been…
Lufthansa prepares new airline
Frankfurt The youngest member of the Lufthansa Group already has a name and its own website. The new airline will be called City Airlines. “Member of Lufthansa Group” is on…
Almost $600,000 – in the USA, pilot salaries are increasing enormously
Cockpit crew in an Airbus A321 The major US airlines are increasing salaries by more than a third because of the pilot shortage. (Photo: imago/imagebroker) Frankfurt Pilots in the USA…
Single-Pilot Cockpit: Only one pilot on the plane
Frankfurt Could one day only one pilot sit in the cockpit and steer the jet in passenger jets? It’s not entirely out of the question. This is shown in a…
Why Russia Won’t Regain Air Supremacy Over Ukraine
A Russian Air Force pilot in the cockpit of his Su-25 during a mission in Ukraine The photo is from a video released by the Russian Defense Ministry in October…
Why Russia Won’t Regain Air Supremacy Over Ukraine
A Russian Air Force pilot in the cockpit of his Su-25 during a mission in Ukraine The photo is from a video released by the Russian Defense Ministry in October…
Management gives union an ultimatum
Emptiness at the Eurowings counters in Cologne Because of the three-day pilots’ strike, the airline had to cancel numerous flights at the beginning of the week. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt Passengers…
A good half of all flights take place
Frankfurt Eurowings pilots went on a three-day strike on Monday morning. The industrial action began as planned, said a spokesman for the Vereinigung Cockpit pilots’ union. No other offer was…
A good half of all flights take place
Frankfurt Eurowings pilots went on a three-day strike on Monday morning. The industrial action began as planned, said a spokesman for the Vereinigung Cockpit pilots’ union. No other offer was…
A good half of all flights take place
Display board at Cologne-Bonn Airport Around 250 flights were canceled during the last strike by Eurowings Germany pilots. (Photo: IMAGO/NurPhoto) Frankfurt Shortly before the pilots’ strike, which begins on Monday,…
Cockpit is calling on pilots to go on strike for three days from Monday
Eurowings jet in Cologne-Bonn Numerous flight cancellations are threatened again from Monday to Wednesday. (Photo: Reuters) Frankfurt The pilots’ association Cockpit has again called for a strike at the Lufthansa…
Pilots strike Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings on Thursday
Eurowings The union Cockpit said the workload had increased significantly. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The pilots’ union VC has announced a 24-hour strike at the Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings for Thursday. The…
No strike on Wednesday – pilots and Lufthansa agree
Frankfurt Lufthansa pilots canceled their two-day strike starting Wednesday. “We are pleased that a result was achieved at the negotiating table,” said the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) pilots’ union after talks…
No strike on Wednesday – pilots and Lufthansa agree
Frankfurt Lufthansa pilots canceled their two-day strike starting Wednesday. The basis for the agreement is an improved offer from the aviation group, which was submitted on Tuesday morning as requested…
Pilots strike Wednesday & Thursday
Frankfurt Lufthansa pilots have decided on a second wave of strikes at the airline. The union Cockpit announced on Tuesday night in Frankfurt that the company could avert the two-day…