Caribbean Airlines axing all Jamaican pilots

Air Jamaica/Caribbean Airlines

TRINIDAD-OWNED Caribbean Airlines (CAL) yesterday announced that  the positions of all pilots represented by the Jamaican Airline Pilots’  Association (JALPA) will be made redundant next month — a move one major trade  union is likening to union busting.

Of the 75 JALPA members, 64 are currently employed to CAL, which  also operates Air Jamaica, following a deal in 2009 for the sale of the Lovebird  to the Trinidad Government.

In a statement released to the media, CAL said the Kingston-based  pilots were yesterday morning advised by representatives of CAL and their  subsidiary CARIBAL Ltd that their positions would be made redundant in May  2012.

The statement, however, provided no further details.

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