Aero Contractors Airline recalls 69 sacked workers
Aero Contractors Airline has recalled 69 of its workers that were laid-off in 2017.
The move by the management of the airline is coming barely a week after the airline successfully conducted the first C-Check in the whole of West and Central Africa; having bounced back to a state of profitability.
The breakdown of the recalled staff according to the airline “indicated that 19 of them were pilots and engineers. Others are 41 administrative staff and additional nine cabin crew. While some of them were recalled late December 2017, others were recalled in January 2018.”
The management also revealed that plans have equally reached an advanced stage to recall another batch of 30 or more workers before the end of first quarter of 2018.
It would be recalled that the former management of the airline had, in March 2017, declared no fewer than 60 per cent of the workers redundant at the peak of its crisis after all its aircraft were grounded.
The General Secretary of Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN), Mr. Frances Akinjola, confirmed the recall of the affected staff to journalists..
Akinjola commended the management of Aero Contractors Airline for fulfilling its promise of recalling some of the workers who were declared redundant in 2017, saying the various unions in the industry were carried along throughout the recall period.
In his words: “I believe Aero management will continue to call us for discussion and we believe that Aero is coming back stronger as envisaged. Our intention was never to see Aero go down and that was the reason we decided to work together with them despite the fact that some of our members felt we were not doing enough.
“The only option left for us then was to shut down Aero, which we refused to do. If we had done that, what we are seeing today would not have come to light. I think we have been vindicated with what we are seeing today.
“Aero is a very good brand in Nigeria’s aviation sector and as we all witnessed on the roll-out of the successful C-check, Aero is coming back to where it used to be and we are even going to surpass that. Nigeria is even going to benefit from the MRO facility of the airline as pressure on foreign exchange among operators would reduce.”
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