Promoting aviation safety, technical expertise and fair living and work conditions
Representing 70% of all cabin crew in Europe, the 33,000+ affiliates represented by their national unions in 8 European countries, look to EurECCA to be their voice in Brussels. EurECCA works to protect and develop the rights of cabin crew all over Europe, especially in the fields of on-board safety and the health, work and living conditions of crew. EurECCA’s staff and Board Members are all cabin crew, still flying regularly, and their real life experience and expertise are assets when discussing and finding solutions to the issues that matter.
What we do :
On 12th July 2021 the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) updated the Safety Directives relating to the cleaning and disinfection of aircrafts in which it recommends to clean and disinfect the aircraft "at least once in any 7 days interval instead of any 24 hours intervals.
The COVID pandemic hit hard on the aviation industry. We have seen job loss, lay off, pay cuts, and lowering working conditions for Cabin Crew.
While European airlines and their employees are already suffering from unfair competition from non-EU airlines, this situation of unfair competition is becoming more and more untenable since the Covid-19 health crisis.
EurECCA supports the approach from the European Commission to effectively reduce carbon emissions as described in the “Fit for 55” package but points out that the measures have to be reasonable to prevent carbon leakage or the shift of competition outside the EU.
