ALPA Services
ALPA provides you with legal advice out on the line every day, at all hours of the day and night, by answering your most critical question: "Am I legal to fly?" ALPA attorneys can respond immediately because they have participated in the discussion and drafting of most of the Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs) that matter to you. They work closely with industry representatives and FAA officials to ensure that the regulations that govern your career take into account the issues important to you.
Grievances and Contract Enforcement
The legal representation of pilots in contract and discipline cases is serious business and requires union lawyers who devote their full time and attention to your issues. When you vote ALPA, you gain a valuable resource with vast experience and a proven track record of winning cases.
ALPA Worldwide Accident/Incident Hotline
ALPA pilot's can call the hotline for help if involved in an aircraft accident, incident, or other time-critical safety- or security-related event. Just one call - any time of the day or night, every day of the year, from anywhere in the world -- connects you with a live ALPA safety representative who will offer immediate advice and activate trained pilot volunteers and professionals, generated on zero notice, to come to your rescue.
Economic & Financial Analysis (E&FA)
ALPA's E&FA department has well over a combined 100 years of hands-on experience in evaluating pilot collective bargaining agreements and analyzing airline business plans, strategies, and financial data. They clearly understand what works for you in a business plan and what doesn't, and it dedicates its services to analyzing financial information from your perspective to protect your interests.
ALPA's Aeromedical Office, or AMAS (Aviation Medicine Advisory Service), routinely works to help pilots stay on, or return to, the line. From answering major and minor medical questions to helping a pilot keep an FAA medical certificate, a professional team of aviation doctors are always on standby.
How would you support your family while walking the picket line? As an ALPA member, your 53,000 union brothers and sisters monetarily assess themselves and pay you strike benefits so you can pay the mortgage, car loan, grocery bills -- your family's most basic needs. ALPA members make this possible because they know you will back them during a strike, if and when that time arrives.
More than 50 years ago, the Association realized that airline pilots who wanted life insurance needed a policy that was specially tailored to their needs. Ever since then, the people who know pilots best -- pilots themselves -- have been designing insurance plans for ALPA's members.
"My drug test was a false 'positive,' and ALPA helped clear my name. . . There is no way I could have fought this on my own. All of ALPA's resources, including the ALPA Aeromedical Office and Legal Department, were crucial to my being vindicated. The best part is that every second of help that I received were included in my membership benefits."
-First Officer M. Rosalind Heinmann (Atlantic Coast, Independence Air 2007)
"ALPA's aeromedical office experts processed all my paperwork and got me back in the cockpit months sooner than if I had gone it alone."
-F/O Tom Cornwell (Alaska)
