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Old 22nd May 2009, 11:47
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WD103
 
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Re the comments suggesting CIA is in a corporate mess.

I can say with certainty MP was sacked due to his extremely poor management of CIA and various other issues.

The current local management at CIA are there in good faith, appointed by the shareholders. They (the local management) have no autonomy. All are aware of the tremendous mess to be cleaned up.

At 'corporate' level, CIA is one of the 'academies' within Alpha Aviation Group (AAG), owned by C+C Alpha Group of 1 Vincent Square, London with a minority shareholding by Prescient Technologies, Singapore. These people have lost many millions through investing in CIA, buying Bond Aviation Solutions at LGW (now Alpha Aviation Academy Europe), and another poorly conceived MPL academy in Sharjah which has not yet commenced operations. The LGW 'academy' is actually a TRTO but is insolvent. It also owns a Sim Industrie B737NG sim sitting unused at FSC Amsterdam. C+C have no real expertise or experience of pilot training. It is their London HDQ where the buck stops, and where frustration should be directed.

Apparently C+C etc did not perform any due diligence when they invested in MP's dreams of a global network of MPL academies in 2006. Sadly it is the innocent students and employees who continue to suffer while the 'venture capitalists' continue to dither and pontificate.
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