World’s Largest Airline Pilots’ Union Tells Members To Be More ‘Inclusive’: Stop Saying ‘Cockpit,’ ‘Manpower’

I Can't Stop Using 'Cockpit' Now That A Woke Pilot Union Tells Me It's A Bad Word

Full disclosure: I CANNOT get enough COCKPIT. All it took to pique my interest in the word COCKPIT was for the world's largest pilot's union to "suggest" in a diversity and inclusion guide that the use of COCKPIT, manpower and other "masculine generalizations" was non-inclusive. Say what? The DEI language has been pushed by the Air Line Pilots Association, Int'l – the organization serves 70,000 pilots worldwide –  since 2021. The ALPA wokes beli…

World’s Largest Airline Pilots’ Union Tells Members To Be More ‘Inclusive’: Stop Saying ‘Cockpit,’ ‘Manpower’

The Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA), the largest airline pilot’s union in the world, published a diversity, equity and inclusion language guide to its members in 2021 instructing them to refrain from using words such as “cockpit,” “airmen,” and “manpower” in order to “reflect the diversity we have at ALPA” and to “create a more inclusive workplace.” “While the word ‘cockpit’ dates back to the 1900s, it has been and may be used …