The International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations (IFALPA) will back the El Al pilots if the government tries to replace them with foreign employees. IFALPA president Robert Tweedy, who is in Israel to examine the possibility of holding the IFALPA 1984 convention in Israel, said that if El Al pilots asked his association for aid “we would certainly back them.” He noted that IFALPA had been “pretty successful” in preventing airlines from recruiting pilots in foreign countries in cases of disputes and strikes or lockouts in airlines.
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