Airline Pilots Association and American Airlines Arbitration Report

ALPA's history is steeped in our commitment to advancing the piloting profession and to ensuring that airline travel grows ever safer. As the world's largest pilots' union, ALPA has advanced the piloting profession since 1931.



Throughout the last eight decades, airline safety and security have been at the core of ALPA's operations. "Schedule with Safety" has been the mission since our Association was founded, and our legacy of championing air safety carries on. It is manifested in the ongoing work and far-reaching contributions of ALPA's network of dedicated pilot volunteers and staff working with industry groups and government officials in the United States and Canada to ensure one level of safety and security for every airline operationcargo and passenger.

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American Airlines, Inc. (AA), commonly referred to as American, is a major American airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. It is the world's largest airline when measured by fleet size, revenue, scheduled passenger-kilometres flown, and number of destinations served. American together with its regional partners operates an extensive international and domestic network with an average of nearly 6,700 flights per day to nearly 350 destinations in more than 50 countries.