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AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION
55TH STREET & CICERO AVENUE
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60638
PORTSMOUTH 7-1400

AFFILIATED WITH A.F.L.-C.I.O.
INT'L

May 31, 1967
Mr. Michael A. Gitt
94 Kings Point Road
Kings Point, New York 11024

Dear Mike:

This acknowledges your letter of May 25, received here on the 29th, with the attached clipping.

ALPA was the first one to break the logjam so far as the stewardesses are concerned as it applies to marriage, in that a System Board case was won on Braniff. Others have begun to fall in line since that time, including the recent System Board on TWU/American Airlines.

Insofar as the law is concerned, which among other things deals with discrimination, the determination of the FAA during the Quesada regime appears to be classified by the Courts as an administrative decision on which the FAA has expertise in the so-called interest of safety and the Courts chose not to upset the FAA's ruling.

Within the last sixty days, we filed a petition with the FAA for a particular pilot asking that a waiver be granted on an annual basis so that the pilot could continue to fly in the same status even though he had passed his 60th birthday.

We cited considerable reasoning behind this, including the pilot shortage, etc. The petition was handled by Mr. Don Madole with the FAA. Unfortunately, the FAA scurried around and got the carrier to agree to continue employing the pilot as a check pilot and/or instructor, which had the effect of continuing his utilization on the air line but not the status of a line pilot, and the facts of the case are that he could have been employed by the carrier in an instructor or check pilot status without any petition, such as the one filed with the FAA. Right at the moment, I do not know if we are going to pursue this avenue further or not. Up to this point, the FAA has been able to make their ruling stick and whether or not we will eventually be able to upset it remains to be seen.

Thanks for your comment. We will continue to pursue the matter on whatever basis it appears it might be productive. This pursuit, however, may encompass a sizeable period of time and we still may wind up with a zero result.

"SCHEDULE WITH SAFETY"
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