Part 70, page 67

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ALPA EXECUTIVE BOARD IN ACTION

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of the Board of Directors, Executive Board, Executive Committee or under the authority of any committee of the Association," and requested the President "to inform all persons, members or otherwise, that such action is not in the best interests of the Association and to take appropriate steps to prevent such use."

► Directed the Association's national officers to invite key members of Congress to address regular meetings of the Association's Executive Board and Board of Directors.

► Interpreted Article IX, Section 4A (1) of the By-Laws to provide that a 10% dues discount will be applicable only to prepaid annual dues amount if the prepayment is less than the total dues owed for the year.

► Conferred a Commendation Award of appreciation for exceptional performance as a pilot member of the Association upon Captain E. M. Long, Flying Tiger Council 98, who on Dec. 3, 1971, completed a solo 28-day around-the-world flight covering 36,000 miles in 215 flying hours in his twin-engine Piper Navajo, setting eight world records including first flight around the world landing on all seven continents, first solo flight around the world at the poles, and first flight crossing the Equator at both the prime and 180th meridians.

► Noted that the finance charge on loss of license semiannual premium payments has caused concern and misunderstanding and instructed the Retirement & Insurance Committee to explain to ALPA membership, through the PILOT BULLETIN, the necessity for the finance charge.

► Adopted the 1972 budget, with conditions, including Executive Committee review and restrictions on re-

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ducing individual MEC budgets. ► Deferred action until the next regular Executive Board meeting on proposed guidelines for printing and mailing charges for council minutes, bulletins and news publications, pending a review of costs. ► Resolved that the Association "strongly opposes" the American Airlines-Western Air Lines merger and ordered action "to make known its position on this pending merger before the appropriate government bodies." ► Directed the National Air Safety Coordinating Committee and the Airworthiness and Performance Committee in coordination with the Engineering and Air Safety Department to conduct a comprehensive study of the most effective means for pilot monitoring of potential hazards to aircraft in service to be presented for consideration of the 15th Executive Board meeting, and delayed implementation of a resolution of the 13th Executive Board regarding monitoring of airworthiness directives, service bulletins, etc. ► Changed administrative procedures to extend the grace period for payment of Association obligations to 60 days for purposes of determining bad-standing status, and noted that this change does not amend current practices covering finance charges for delayed payments.

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Revised Merger Policy Adopted By Executive Board

One of the more important actions at the Executive Board at its December 1971 meeting was the adoption of the new Merger Policy.

The major change in the new policy is the elimination of the "Method 1/Method 2" membership balloting - processing and insertion of a step procedure for utilization of merger representatives as a guide to the solution of their seniority list integration problems.

The new merger policy is not applicable to any merger already pend-2

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ing or announced unless the respective pilot groups mutually agree to use it.

The new policy also provides safeguards to delay action on merger of seniority lists until there is "reasonable assurance" that the merger will be approved and the government award is acceptable to the involved companies.

Nominees Sought For Air Safety Award

The ALPA Engineering and Air Safety Department is calling for nominations for the 1972 Annual Air Safety Award, which will be presented at the ALPA Air Safety Forum, May 22-25, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington.

Procedures established for the selection of the recipient of the Award state that each local council may submit to the MEC chairman a candidate or candidates for the award and each MEC chairman may submit to the Association the name of its candidate or candidates. Final selection is then made

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by the Executive Committee.

Each council should submit its nominations to the MEC chairman as early as possible because MEC chairmen are requested to forward the nominations to ALPA Secretary John Giberson no later than March 10.

New Loss Of License Classification Established

The Executive Board, at its December meeting, established a Group Member Class under the Loss of License contract issued by Equitable Life Assurance Society. It is specifically designed to accommodate any pilot groups on whose behalf ALPA has negotiated Loss of License contracts. This classification allows the Group Member to have an additional amount of Loss of License benefit separate and apart from his coverage under the ALPA program, if any, to a combined maximum benefit of $2,000 regardless of income and up to $2,500 overall maximum if justified by income.

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