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The TT Pilots Association (TTALPA) is calling on the Prime Minister to urgently intervene to settle salary increases for Caribbean Airlines (CAL) pilots, four months after the Finance Minister authorised those increases.

At a press conference at Normandie Hotel, St Ann's, on February 27, TTALPA industrial relations representative Timothy Bailey said the union referred the delay in the payment of the new salaries to the Ministry of Labour after CAL failed to implement the increases.

Last October, Finance Minister Colm Imbert intervened in the public dispute over pilots' wages, authorising CAL to settle negotiations for two periods –2015-2020 and 2020-2023– with four per cent offers for both periods.