Failure makes gov’t back out of PAL-pilots talks
By Aytch S. de la Cruz 08/06/2010 Government forces yesterday decided to let go of the warring Philippine Airlines (PAL) management and the 25 pilots who suddenly quit their jobs last week given the commitment conveyed to them by PAL officials that they will do everything to resolve the lingering issues among themselves. At a news conference at Malacañang yesterday, presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said they have been assured by the PAL management that it will no longer transfer its A-320 pilots to its sister company, Air Philippines, which is among the reasons mentioned by the 25 pilots in their decision to leave the flag-carrier for foreign airline companies. The Palace spokesman added PAL officials also committed to submit a revised flight schedule for all the routes that it currently flies and subsequently publish them in the broadsheets for the flying public’s perusal. Lacierda said this would “normalize” PAL’s operations under reduced flight frequency so as not to prolong the inconvenience of the flag-carrier’s customers. “PAL management shall undertake continuing dialog with the remaining pilots to resolve issues between them and as far as the government is concerned, it will now let PAL and the pilots settle their differences through promised dialog. For that reason, government will just monitor the dialog between the two (parties concerned),” he added. But Lacierda clarified that the government’s decision to withdraw its presence from the actual dialogue is not an indication that it has failed on its efforts to address this particular issue..... MORESource: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100806hed2.html |
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