Rather than address concerns voiced by its pilots' union about a potential program data breach, NetJets chose to unilaterally terminate the tri-partite Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) Program, a highly effective, FAA-approved program. The parties have used this industry-standard initiative to identify and mitigate safety concerns for more than a decade. Read more here ...
In a recent filing in federal court, NetJets attorneys characterized the company’s unwavering pledges regarding the safety of its operations as “nothing more than … ‘puffery.’”
In addition to terminating its industry-standard FOQA Program, NetJets has altered all Safety Management System (SMS) components that involve direct communication between the FAA and NJASAP, dramatically diminishing the pilot group’s ability to share safety concerns with the federal agency. Learn more about SMS here ...
NetJets’ ongoing and escalating exclusion of its own pilots from safety protocols is of extreme concern to NJASAP. Like NetJets’ leaders, Boeing executives ignored concerns raised by its front-line employees, focusing instead on profits and shareholder dividends. The similarities are chilling.
An independent pilot labor advocate, the NetJets Association of Shared Aircraft Pilots (NJASAP) represents the professional interests of the 3,500-plus crewmembers who fly in the service of NetJets Aviation, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary. // A relentless guardian and defender, NJASAP protects and enhances its members' careers via vigorous contract negotiation and enforcement, untiring support for a multi‐faceted operational safety apparatus, responsive and transparent organizational leadership and unwavering support for its government affairs program.
Berkshire Hathaway's NetJets Aviation, Inc., escalated adversarial activity against its 3,430 unionized pilots by terminating the employment of two high-ranking Union leaders, the NJASAP Vice President and Strategy Group chair, earlier this month.
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