LIAT: Pilot go slow – update

Regional airline – the Leeward Islands Air Transport‘s (LIAT) pilots all called in sick yesterday, disrupting the carrier’s flights across the Caribbean.

“As a result of the industrial action, all of the company’s morning services have been disrupted. This is also likely to affect the rest of (yesterday’s) flights,” the airline said in a statement out of its St John’s, Antigua corporate offices yesterday.

The pilots were said to be protesting the firing of LIAT pilot Capt Michael Blackburn.

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