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. 

Click on the timeline below to view a chronicle of the pilot labor movement.

Throughout its more than 70 years, ALPA’s safety experts have contributed to remarkable achievements in aviation safety. 

Click on the Seventy Years of Safety timeline below to find out more.