28 February 2012
Cabair International, the Cranfield based FTO, has ceased trading leaving many students facing loses of up to £70,000 on prepaid fees. Cabair had only recently returned to service offering both integrated and modular training packages following the news in October 2011 that its UK operation had suspended training and closed in PPL schools around the UK. At that time, Cabair CEO, Andy Cruise, had promised that new funding had become available that would allow the FTO to offer training again, with students already on the integrated course of study being asked to pay a top-up of up to £15,000. The students who had accepted this offer will now have lost this extra investment on top of any previously paid fees.
Responding to the news, a CAA spokesman commented, ‘Obviously this is sad news for the students and we will do all we can to ensure that those affected may resume their training at another flight training school with the least disruption. To this end we have been in discussion with Cabair International and requested that they forward the students’ records to the CAA. Once a student has identified where they plan to resume their training we will forward their records to the new flight school.
‘It is important to add that Cabair had met all criteria, including financial information, when the company applied to the CAA for its approval to operate as a Flight Training Organisation. An approval would not have been issued without these criteria being met.’
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