The European Cockpit Association (ECA), an umbrella organization representing 40,000 pilots across Europe, has called for stopgap measures to address the problem of commercial aircraft flying in conflict zones until a more permanent solution is established to prevent tragedies like the recent shootdown of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 in Iran.
One proposal being floated by ECA is a “two out–all out” rule. If two European Union (EU) member states or two major airlines decide to suspend flights to a conflict zone, then all European airlines would cease flying to the area in question. “This means that passengers and crew on all airlines would benefit from the secret and non-shareable intelligence available to some ‘privileged’ authorities and airlines, and by looking only at public outcomes of their risk assessments,” ECA said in a statement.
“What we urgently need is a method of sharing and acting, not upon closely guarded intelligence, but upon the o…
