IOSA ha!
Re IOSA Arik may be able to pull the wool/bribe the NCAA but they are not going to fool the rest of the world with their startlingly poor management. Not only are they missing the key players required, anyone who had any interest and ability to do the job wrt to getting the manuals , systems and processes in place has given up trying to get VE to see that it has to be done correctly not the "Nigerian way" and have left due mostly to the attitude of VE.
With aircraft being cannibalized and pax increasingly being delayed, pilots disillusioned and services cancelled at no notice Arik will be lucky to still be operating by Xmas. The desperation of bringing in the 4on/4off roster with the pay rises that we have asked for for over 2 years is just too little too late.
Arik have brought this all on themselves by letting men like VE have a hand when he was clearly out of his depth and then rubbing salt in the wounds by promoting the man responsible for the triple decimation of the pilot workforce.
Simply put no one in their right mind wants to be there and those that remain do so only until they get the ink dry on offers with the many other operators out there who actually 1) Want expat pilots and 2) Treat them as a higher lifeform than dingos.
When VE is sitting in his office presiding over the remnants of what could have been a beautiful airline using writs, injunctions and summons as fire material to keep warm maybe then he will rue the day he decided to loose sight of the fact that this may be Nigeria but the world and even his own country is growing up and refuses to be treated like he probably was in his youth.
Pilots these days vote with their feet. RIP Arik RIP