Pilots press Govt for outstanding $20M payout ahead of budget

With six days to go be­fore Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo presents Gov­ern­ment’s sec­ond an­nu­al bud­get, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Air­line Pi­lots’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTAL­PA) is de­mand­ing pay­ment of more than $20 mil­lion owed to its mem­bers.

Op­ti­mistic that pi­lots will re­ceive at least part of the out­stand­ing sum, which cov­ers two col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing pe­ri­ods from 2015-2020 and 2020-2023, TTAL­PA chair­man Ja­son Wick­ham yes­ter­day said the claim was straight­for­ward.

“The work has al­ready been done,” he said, in­sist­ing pi­lots were sim­ply seek­ing pay­ment for ser­vices ren­dered.