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Boeing Pilots Protest Use of Contractors
to Train 787 Crews

AINONLINE

by  GREGORY POLEK

The union representing Boeing pilots have criticized the company for not informing new 787 customers of plans to use contractors to perform line assist. (Photo: Boeing)

September 12, 2012, 11:04 AM

Six weeks after unanimously voting “No Confidence” in the management of Boeing’s Training & Flight Services division, pilots employed by the company to deliver airplanes and help prepare customer crews to fly them have decided to go public with their displeasure with Boeing’s decision to hire contract pilots to perform 787 training.

The Airplane Manufacturing Pilots Association (AMPA), which is a bargaining unit of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), represents the 28 Boeing pilots who voted for the measure. Two other AMPA pilots had taken scheduled vacation during the August 1 vote.

None of the temporary pilots have flown the 787 and many have not piloted a commercial aircraft in two years, according to SPEEA. Hired through Cambridge Communications Limited (CCL), a company based offshore on the Isle of Man, the pilots receive none of the extra training and flight time Boeing pilots must accumulate before they can fly with customer crews during a process called line assist, the union claims. “They’re supposed to, but Training Flight Services management has waived those requirements,” SPEEA Ray Goforth told AIN. “It’s a requirement that had been in place for about fifty years.”