Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 May 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Pilot Training College of Ireland: Discussion

1:30 pm

Mr. Brian Kealy:

Of the €8.4 million that was left owed in undelivered training, just over €5.4 million, perhaps, related to private people like ourselves, and about €3 million related to companies. The biggest one was Air Astana, the Kazakh airline, which was owed about €1 million. Those airlines essentially just shifted their students elsewhere, because they lost money but could absorb it and live with it. They wanted to get their pilots trained, so they just moved. Air Astana moved to Atlantic Flight. I am not sure what the other airlines did. Unfortunately, that was not the case for the privately funded students.

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