New hope for stranded student pilots

More than 40 student pilots, who had their training suspended in Canada for five months and were forced to work illegally, may be transferred to a US aviation school.

Relatives of the students reached a preliminary agreement with Beijing-based Okair after tense negotiations yesterday.

"Finally, Okair will contract three aviation training schools in China, the US and Canada respectively to review the capabilities of my son in one or two weeks," a father, who only wanted to be identified as Mr Liu, told METRO yesterday.