Overview
ECA focuses on aviation safety, staying updated with safety protocols and regulations for pilots and aviation professionals. The organization publishes position papers, campaigns, and news on topics including evidence-based training, fatigue, and working conditions in European aviation.
In the news
- Gender equality in aviation starts with the conditions pilots work in. Today, ECA President Tanja Harter spoke at the European Parliament during #GenderEquityWeek, at the event focusing on gender equality in aviation. Her message to policymakers was clear: if the EU wants more women in the cockpit, and wants them to stay, it must address the structural barriers they face at every stage of their careers. Access to the profession: Training to become a pilot is expensive, and women often find it harder to obtain the loans needed to
- Gender equality in aviation starts with the conditions pilots work in. Yesterday, ECA President Tanja Harter spoke at the European Parliament during #GenderEqualityWeek. Her message to policymakers was clear: if the EU wants more women in the cockpit, and wants them to stay, it must address the structural barriers they face at every stage of their careers. Access to the profession: Training to become a pilot is expensive, and women often find it harder to obtain the loans needed to pay for a pilot’s licence. Life at work and
- A gap in safety culture? Only 12% of European pilots trust their airline’s fatigue reporting system. That is one of the findings of A Fatigue Survey of European Pilots – 2026, published earlier this week by Baines Simmons. “For an essential conduit of safety-related information, this reflects a large gap in the safety culture across many operators.” (p. 21) If pilots don't trust the systems designed to report fatigue, what does that mean for aviation safety? Fatigue reporting must be non-punitive, and pilots must feel safe
- A strong safety culture depends on pilots being able to report fatigue without fear of negative consequences. But how much confidence do pilots really have in these systems?
- Three years after our last survey, European pilots report that #fatigue is still not being managed properly. Today, we are publishing A Fatigue Survey of European Pilots – 2026, an independent report by aviation consultancy Baines Simmons, based on responses from 7,200 pilots across 32 countries. The findings show that little has changed since 2023. Almost none of the survey dimensions showed significant improvement in airlines’ fatigue risk management, as experienced by European pilots. • More than three in four pilots (76.8%)
- We are not a resource. We are humans.” These are the voices of airBaltic pilots. This is their story. 🔗 Read the full publication https://lnkd.in/eJqXfrjM Latvian Aviation Union
- Today, our Executive Board received EASA Executive Director Florian Guillermet and his team, in Brussels. For over 2 hours we discussed key safety issues and provided the pilot’s operational perspective to the Agency. Our messages: Europe needs a strong & well-resourced Safety Agency. Continuously enhancing safety is key. Pilot fatigue is a problem that can no longer be ignored – it needs effective responses. Follow-up work & exchanges between ECA and EASA were agreed upon, where the pilots’ expertise, operational perspective and
- More than two years later, this one is finally closed. Florentina won her case. The Bucharest Court of Appeal definitively cancelled her disciplinary dismissal and ordered her reinstatement and the payment of the salary rights owed for the period she was out. What started with repeated fume reports during flights turned into a long dispute about safety reporting, psychological assessments and how far things can go when someone decides to speak up. She is back flying. The judgement is final. Full press release:
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