HIGHLAND AIRWAYS, the specialist Inverness based operator, is to promote cadet pilot training, making it and sister company Air Atlantique probably the only British carriers offering a sponsored scheme. The plan was announced by the airline”s chairman Bob Macleod, the former managing director of British Caledonian Helicopters and of Highlands and Islands Airports. Talking to the media in Inverness he confirmed a new contract with BAE Systems for two aircraft serving the staff movement needs of Britain”s largest defence contractor. The airline also moved its Royal Mail contract to serve the Western Isles to Inverness rather than Glasgow. The airline”s Scottish Fishery Protection contract is now over one year old and working well. He sees expansion for the airline, with its busy hangar, now the largest employer at the airport.
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