LIAT pilots apologise for inconvenience, outline new agreement

By Michelle Nurse On Jun 13, 2017

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BASSETERRE, St Kitts, Jun 13 2017 – The President of the Leeward Island Airline Pilots Association (LIAPLA), Captain Carl Burke, has apologised to the travelling public in the Caribbean after pilots refused to fly the ATR72 aircraft operated by the regional carrier, LIAT, over salary increases.

“Well first of all, with the most recent situation which took place last week, I want to apologize to persons that were inconvenienced and I want to give them all reassurance that the pilots normally, usually exhaust all means of negotiations with LIAT . . .” Burke told WINN FM radio station here.

He told radio listeners the LIAPLA had brought in an attorney to assist it with the negotiations and that “there was a deal that was brokered in the Labour Minister’s office on the 24th of May and we thought that would have put the matter of negotiations to bed.