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By Lawani Mikairu Air Peace airline Monday sacked some of its pilots over a disagreement in salary and allowances. Recall that there had recently been lingering disagreement over pay cut and reviewed remuneration between the pilots and the management, which has finally culminated to the sacking of some pilots. Notably amongst those affected are those
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Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd said it will offer a voluntary scheme to its Hong Kong-based pilots, who are approaching retirement age, to leave the group early. It said this is in a continued effort to cut costs amid the coronavirus pandemic. The airline said in an email to Reuters on Saturday it is looking at
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United Labour Congress of Nigeria, ULC, has threatened to throw Rivers State into total blackout and fuel scarcity, among other threats, over the arrest, arraignment and detention of two pilots and 10 oil workers by the state government.
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Caverton Helicopters yesterday appealed to the federal government to prevail on the Governor of River State, Mr Nyesom Wike to release its pilots who have been remanded at the Port Harcourt prison. The governor accused the pilots of flying expatriates into River State without involving the state government in the testing and approval of the coronavirus status of the expatriates.
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Turkish authorities on Thursday detained seven people – including four pilots – as part of the widening probe into former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn’s wild escape from Japan as he transited through Istanbul en route to Lebanon. The other people held were two airport ground workers and one cargo worker, a police spokeswoman told Reuters,
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Residents of Ilorin community area of Ilorin International Airport are now living in palpable fear following a trainee aircraft belonging to International Aviation College (IAC) which crashed landed late yesterday afternoon at the airport runway.
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The National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE) on Thursday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to focus on actualising the roadmap for the aviation sector during his second term.
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The Nigeria Air Force (NAF) says it has graduated its first set of in-house trained pilots for its Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), as part of its human capacity development initiatives.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has commissioned the first set of Nigerian Army Pilots trained by the Nigerian Army Aviation School to fly war planes.
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The worldwide commercial aviation industry would need an extra 255,000 pilots by 2027 to sustain its rapid growth according to a 10-year forecast published by training company CAE Inc.
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