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Find the minutes from AEI regional Meeting in London on the members page.  Attached is also a PDF file that contains a number of documents referred to in the minutes.

French investigators said on Tuesday that have found the second flight recorder of the Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic almost two years ago.
Flight 447 from Rio to Paris plunged into the sea off the Brazilian coast in June two thousand and nine, killing all 228 people onboard.

The latest discovery comes two days after the first flight data recorder was recovered.
They should hold cockpit conversations during the flight’s final moments, which will bring officials and victims’ relatives closer to understanding what happened

Qantas, Australia’s largest airline company with 35,000 employees, is preparing a major confrontation with pilots, engineers and ground staff in order to impose a sharp defeat and open the way to slash working conditions.
The management has vehemently rejected claims by the Australian and International Pilots Association (AIPA), the Australian Licenced Aircraft Engineers Association (ALAEA) and the Transport Workers Union (TWU) for “job security” clauses in new enterprise work agreements.

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Source: World Socialist web site (wsws.org)

This week again a colleague was fired for being too insistent on demanding an answer to solve a serious safety issue. Shooting the messenger is for some companies  an easy way of solving a serious safety problem.  

Colleagues who have absolutely no trust in the local NAA or their company are requested to report occurrences and unsafe situationes directly to EASA.

 Road Map to EASA Occurrence Report.

The Finnish Aviation Union IAU and  the Trade Union Pro staged a demonstration  with a walkout  by Finnair technical staff on Thursday outside Finnair’s Annual General Meeting in Helsinki,  Finland.  The protest was aimed at drawing  attention to the national airline’s upper-level management’s compensation  system which makes it possible to make bonuses on personal perfomance cards which leads to  making their department  " As Lean as  possible  ".

After the discovery of maintenance facility discrepancies threatening aircraft safety in the Far East reported by ALAEA now there is evidence that the same is happening in USA.

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AEI is planning a one day meeting in London for the heads of the AEI affiliated unions.  The situation within the aviation industry particularly within Europe is at a crossroad and AEI and its affiliates need to be ahead of the situation in order to build on our continuing success story. Therefore we believe high level discussions about our future aims and strategy is extremely important.  

Find the invitation on the members page !

AEI has paid a visit on invitation from the Air India Aircraft Engineers Association in Mumbai. Secretary General , Fred Bruggeman, made a presentation about AEI history, what AEI does, and what to focus on , in the years ahead of us.

Read the Secreatary Generals personal notes on the members page!  

AEI officers attended a high level meeting with EASA management on the 27th. January 2011.
This was the first of planned meetings to take place on a regular basis, once a year.

Affiliates can read the minutes on the members page.

Draft minutes and several reports from the 2010 AEI Annual Congress is avaliable on the members page under the Annual Congress section.