Kathmandu, Jan. 25 -- On Thursday, 22 Nepal Airlines pilots submitted a memorandum to the management warning to quit en masse if their concerns regarding a pay raise were not addressed.

But on Friday, four of them submitted separate letters informing the management that they had withdrawn the protest alleging a "misuse" of their signatures.

More pilots are likely to follow suit.

Two copies of the pilots' subsequent letters, which were obtained by the Post, show that a number of pilots signed the memorandum to ask the management to review their pay-not resign en masse.

"But the issue was politicised," one senior captain said in his Friday letter. "It was a valid complaint by the flying crew asking for a pay raise and I supported it acc...