Dear colleagues,

The year 2024 began with excellent news for our reserves, the CRPN recovered, before the end of January 2024, 97% of the employer contributions that had been postponed from 2020 to the end of 2023 due to the health crisis. The remaining 3% are being reimbursed and even in this context, as of December 31, 2024, we have recovered almost all of the employer contributions for the year 2020, thus protecting the airmen rights for the year 2020. Also, and without any doubt, the choice made by the Board of Directors of the CRPN to protect the airmen jobs, to ensure the payment of employee contributions by accepting the postponement of employer contributions has definitely been a courageous, ambitious and effective marker of our governance.

Beyond this replenishment of our reserves, the resumption of activity, the performance of our financial investments, and the effectiveness of the CRPN services in the fight against fraud have allowed us to record a good year in terms of economic results.

The fight against fraud, which is particularly important to me and which the CRPN has been fighting relentlessly for many years now, in the form that we knew in the 2000s, has become totally marginal.

The year 2024 marked the arrival of a new form of social fraud, which is more complex and involving principals which are themselves airlines.

ACMI (chartering) in its industrialised version constitutes the new fight of our institution. The model is more difficult to fight because it can call upon everything that we have known in isolation in the same operation (principal company, broker, false independents, extreme agility, …).

It is without a doubt on the ground of these charters that the CRPN will direct its actions in 2025 to prevent, under the cover of maintenance and aircraft availability problems, a non-virtuous model of replacing PN jobs in France, by PNs not contributing to the CRPN scheme, from being established.

It is specifically in this context that, during the summer of 2024, we decided to equip ourselves with an IT tool integrating artificial intelligence allowing analyse flights to and from France.

We will soon extend the capabilities of this tool to continuously analyse all flights to and from France, to proactively detect potential fraud.

Detection is essential in this new model, since it will allow us to immediately alert the principal who will have to act immediately at the risk of being prosecuted as well.

It is also in this context that in March 2025, the CRPN will organise its first social event. It will be specific to the new fraud that charters constitute, to raise awareness among all stakeholders in the air industry and warn principals at the dawn of the opening of the IATA summer 2025 season. Strong proposals will be put forward on this occasion. We will come back to this shortly.

In any case, thanks to the efforts and our strong positioning, the technical deficit of the scheme in percentage is reducing by gradually approaching the level of 2019, before the Covid crisis.

Naturally, and beyond this encouraging result, the continuous increase in life expectancy and the observation that our sector experiences a major crisis every 10 years, require us collectively to work to make our CRPN more resilient in order to ensure its sustainability within the framework of the intergenerational pact on which our scheme is based.

In this regard, all CRPN’s administrators and services are mobilised, and I am hopeful that proposals capable of meeting this objective will emerge in 2025..

Finally, I wanted to share with you some news which is particularly important to me. An agreement between the CRPN and New Caledonia should soon be signed. This is the second agreement that the CRPN could sign, after French Polynesia in 2021. Beyond the legal formalism, the CRPN is expressing its attachment to all France’s airmen, regardless of the remoteness of the territory and their independence from the basic schemes. The CRPN is and will remain indivisible for the airmen community. I will ensure that all our airmen affiliated with the CRPN benefit from our scheme without restriction or discrimination until the end of my term as President.

Also, and you will have understood, even if in the perimeter of the CRPN, things are rather looking good, I must mention the exogenous headwinds.

The political news has opened a sequence of parliamentary instability leading to legislative instability where everything seems possible. The desire of the Government and a part of the national representation to increasingly tax our sector of activity, at the risk of degrading the competitiveness of our companies and therefore destroying employment based in France, or the risks of a return of a new pension reform phagocytising our well-managed system, raise questions, not to say are worrying.

My main wish for 2025 will be that France finds a calmer and more serene environment. An environment conducive to the prosperity of both the air transport activity based in France and the rights of our affiliates.

In any case, as I have done since 2018 and my election as president of the CRPN, you will be able to count on me in 2025 to defend the existence and the soul of our pension authority. The CRPN is and will remain the leading player in the Retirement of Airmen.

I wish you, your families and all those who are dear to you a year 2025 synonymous with good health, joy and success.