Pilots flee SAA tensions for jobs abroad
Sixty South African pilots have taken up jobs with foreign airlines over the last 12 months. Most of them took up positions with Middle Eastern carriers‚ according to SAA Pilots Association chairman captain Jimmy Conroy. Conroy fears the local airline industry and the country may lose a large number of pilots to international airlines due to surging international demand - a loss of skills and experience which it cannot afford in the long term. "SAA has a normal attrition rate of 15 – 25 pilots per year. Recent negative publicity together with hostility from certain quarters has caused some pilots at SAA to re-evaluate their career options‚" he said. Pilots have been under the whip from SAA board chairperson Dudu Miyeni since last year‚ who says salaries paid to the airline's pilots are "exorbitant and unaffordable". <br/>
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Pilots flee SAA tensions for jobs abroad
Sixty South African pilots have taken up jobs with foreign airlines over the last 12 months. Most of them took up positions with Middle Eastern carriers‚ according to SAA Pilots Association chairman captain Jimmy Conroy. Conroy fears the local airline industry and the country may lose a large number of pilots to international airlines due to surging international demand - a loss of skills and experience which it cannot afford in the long term. "SAA has a normal attrition rate of 15 – 25 pilots per year. Recent negative publicity together with hostility from certain quarters has caused some pilots at SAA to re-evaluate their career options‚" he said. Pilots have been under the whip from SAA board chairperson Dudu Miyeni since last year‚ who says salaries paid to the airline's pilots are "exorbitant and unaffordable". <br/>
