WHY HELP?

Pilots are all well off anyway, right? Not quite. Most pilots have to pay for their own training, which can cost up to £130,000. This money is more often taken as a loan, either by re-mortgaging their own or their parent's house, or a training loan backed by the airline that employs them. When that employment ends, so does the ability to pay it back.

For some of our colleagues this is not the first time they've been made redundant. For others, they left other employers to join an airline where they thought they'd be safe.

They now find themselves out of a job at a time no other airlines are hiring, with none of them receiving any redundancy payments, relying solely on their notice period. Many have no other careers to turn to, and with bills to pay they can't invest in retraining.

With your help we can offer a lifeline to our colleagues to get them back on their feet. Whether it is a financial donation, a job offer, a reduction on a service or even just adding a link to a useful website, anything you can offer will show the that the aviation community looks after its own.