(Reuters) – The union representing 15,000 American Airlines pilots has voiced concerns regarding the brand new cockpit protocols enforced by the airline, without adequate training.
The carrier on Tuesday implemented recent procedures for cockpit communications during critical events akin to low visibility landings, in line with the union.
“The operational changes that management is attempting to implement without fulsome training alters how pilots communicate, coordinate, and execute flight safety duties at among the most high-threat times of flight,” Allied Pilots Association (APA) said in a post on Monday.
The changes were imposed over a bulletin, in line with the union. “This try to train by bulletin, while ignoring serious safety concerns and well-established best practices, runs the danger of dramatically eroding margins of safety,” it added.
American said in an emailed statement to Reuters, that the corporate doesn’t “typically issue training for most of these updates; these changes are a harmonization of flight operating manuals between our different aircraft type.”
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration didn’t immediately reply to a request for a comment.
(Reporting by Aishwarya Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Shailesh Kuber)
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