The Correia Group of Companies, which includes Trans Guyana Airways (TGA), yesterday announced that the company has selected two more of its employees to join the company’s Overseas Pilot Training Programme.
A release from TGA said that the Programme, which began on a trial basis in January 2011 and was formally launched in September 2012, has successfully trained four pilots who have since become Command Captains at TGA.
Chief Executive Officer of the Correia Group of Companies, Michael Correia Jnr., faced with the challenge of a growing fleet of aircraft and an increasing number of domestic flights, decided that in order to meet the growing pilot demand, that every company employee and eligible family member would be afforded the opportunity to become a pilot with the company, the release said.
The release disclosed that Al Fredericks, who joined TGA in 2009 as a Flight Operations Officer and Shivram Arjune, who joined Caribbean Aviation Maintenance Services (CAMS) in 2011 as a Trainee Aviation Mechanic, are the third pair of employees to be selected for the Overseas Pilot Training Pro-gramme.
They were chosen from 10 applicants within the company.
Fredericks and Arjune will begin training at the Vero Beach Pilot Training School in Florida in October, the release said.
