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TMG Digital reports that 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.
He fears the local airline industry and the country may lose a large number of pilots to international airlines due to surging international demand. “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‚” Conroy indicated in a statement. Pilots have been under the whip since last year from SAA board chairperson Dudu Miyeni‚ who says salaries paid to the airline’s pilots are “exorbitant and unaffordable“.
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