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Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting in Bangkok October 2- 3, 1971

Central Intelligence Agency · 1971-10-22 · 5 pages · text from the file's own layer

These are the minutes of a Board of Directors meeting of a pilots association affiliated with the International Federation of Air Line Pilots Associations. The meeting was held in Bangkok on October 2 and 3, 1971, and the CIA released the minutes in 2023. The board discussed labor matters: pilot seniority and furloughs, grievances including the Bailey, Stuart and Stensloff cases, excessive flight time, message restrictions at Udorn, the wage price freeze and constitutional revisions. The document does not mention UFOs.

  • p. 3 …of the Association to keep the IFALPA Headquarters in Japan rather than compromising our image with…
  • p. 4 …for their consideration on request of IFALPA Headquarters. 21. The memento for Ralph Adams retirement was…
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Stensloff Grievance Case was discussed.F3 D.
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A. The VPFC denied the adjustment of F/O otensloff seniority
number to reflect his original date of hire. _
B. The Board feels that morally Stensloff‘s case has merit,
however the Board could not justify bringing this case to
the System Board of Adjustment becluse the period concerned
was prior to the FBPA working agreement and we have no legal
recourse under the Agreement.
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The Board congratulated Capt. J. Markham on his work in the
Insurance field, and his excellent preparation of the various
grievances he has presented. -
The nomination of a new IFALPA Representative was discussed.
A. The Board agreed it would be in the best interest of the
Association to keep the IFALPA Headquarters in Japan rather
than compromising our image with IFALPA by moving over IFnLPA
Director to VTJ.
The Constitution was discussed and the area of elections in par-
ticular came under study.
A. It was agreed that a committee would be formed at each
station to review the Constitution and their recommendations
reviewed by the membership for Q possible note on revisions
to the Constitution.
The Company's position of implementing the provisions of Sec 5,
B 16 was discussed.4
A. The Board agreed that if this provision is adhered to ob-
jectively there could be no objection to its implementation.
The Board discussed the VPFO's explanation of the removal of the
prior qualification restriction on the C150.
A. It was agreed that the new qualification requirements be
given to the Association in writing by the Company.
The Board discussed the use of FEPA pilots on competing carrier I
aircraft while the concerned carrier pilots were on strike.
(i.e. World Airlines) e
A. The Company was assured FEPA that they would confer with
the Association before entering into any agreement with
striking_carriers. .
The Flying Safety Course at USC was discussed and the Company's
osition of refusine STO for this ur ose in the case of Ca t.
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