Solenta and Qwila Merger
I have been given permission to place the following news:
To all Crew and Engineers - Qwila Air (Pty) Limited
Cc All employees – Solenta Aviation (Pty) Limited and Solenta Aviation Workshop (Pty) Limited
RE: RESTRUCTURING OF QWILA AIR CONTRACTS AND OPERATIONS
As many of you know, the aviation industry is facing challenging times ahead, driven primarily by a declining world economy and the impact of the high oil prices over the past eighteen months.
Towards addressing these challenges we face, and following discussions with our clients, we have decided to merge forces with the Solenta Aviation Group.
Effective Sunday 16th November 2008, Solenta Aviation (Pty) Limited will assume direct and total responsibility for all our contracts and their operations into the future – on both the AOC and the AMO sides of the business.
We have agreed with Solenta Aviation (Pty) Limited that all our crew and engineers currently employed by Qwila Air (Pty) Ltd will be offered immediate employment with Solenta Aviation, at the current Qwila Air (Pty) Limited salary scale that you are on.
You will however be required to sign a new contract directly with Solenta Aviation (Pty) Ltd – for air crew, and Solenta Aviation Workshop (Pty) Limited – for engineers - and then undergo an interview and the full Solenta induction process and familiarization of the Solenta company, cultures and Operating Manuals (both AOC and AMO) by no later than 15 February 2009.
All crew will be required to undertake a flight proficiency test with a designated flight examiner / instructor approved by Solenta Aviation. (This is to ensure compliance with SACAA legislations and Solenta Aviation Operations Manual requirements).
It is our hope and intention that this news and process will be received with openness and acceptance, and that the field operations shall not be disrupted at all by this transition. Ian Durand shall be employed by Solenta Aviation effective the same date (of 16th November 2008) and will be responsible to look after all the current Qwila contracts and Qwila employees and their concerns in the interim phase-in period. He shall continue with Solenta Aviation too into the indefinite future.
The Solenta Aviation operations and maintenance departments and structures will however be introduced and take over the bulk of the day-to-day running and management of the contracts.
We believe that your future careers and prospects shall remain equal to or better than that of Qwila Air into the longer term future, with prospects of more contracts, in more areas, and with bigger fleet types.
Additional more detailed communications shall follow in due course.
In the event anyone has any questions not covered above, please contact Bruce Johnstone or Ian Durand immediately and directly for clarification and further discussion.
Yours faithfully
(Signed Bruce Johnstone and Mark Hurst)
Last edited by pointer41; 31st Oct 2008 at 14:51.