LIAT pilots want bosses to drop pay cut

(Barbados Today) LIAT’s owners – four Caribbean nations including Barbados – are being urged to take pay cuts for pilots off the table as they mull options for a new flight path for the cash-strapped carrier.

Ahead of planned talks in Barbados on Wednesday between LIAT’s shareholder governments, management and unions representing the airline’s workers, pilots have served notice that a salary cut is not an option.

President of the Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association (LIAPA), Carl Burke, said his members are very reluctant to accept the call for a salary cut at this time.

Burke told Observer Radio in St John’s: “Looking at the situation as it is right now, if we are to go forward doing the things that we are doing now, if we do not look at the scheduling, if we do not look at how we are going to generate the revenue going forward, we can give up ten per cent now and we have no idea when the company will rebound for us to recoup that investment or even for them to start paying the staff back,”.

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