Japan Airlines (JAL) said on Tuesday that it would slash 6,800 jobs and pursue a tie-up with a foreign carrier in a bid to return to profit in the face of severe turbulence unleashed by the global recession.
Source: AFP
Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA), prime contractor at Arnold Center, yesterday notified some of its employees that they will be laid off effective Sept. 25.
The final number was 132 separations of regular, full-time employees, including 47 who volunteered for the layoff for personal reasons; 27 were involuntary and the remainder were retirements or ATA teammate reductions. The reduction included both salaried and hourly employees. ATA has been the operating contractor at AEDC since 2003; the company employs about 2,200 people.
Source: TullahomaNews
(Canada, US) There were 7 more layoffs at IMP Aerospace Components in Amherst last Friday. Late last month, 30 employees got layoff notices.
Source: The Cronicle Herald
Air France said Friday it was about to launch a voluntary redundancy scheme to shed 1,500 jobs due to a decline in both passenger and cargo business.
Source: Asia One
BAE Systems said Thursday it could cut as many as 225 jobs, or 14 percent of its local work force, this fall because of the slow economy and changes in federal defense priorities that have reduced demand for its commercial aviation and electronics products.
Source: PressConnects.com
(Canada, N.S.): Only weeks after landing a lucrative contract to build components for the military’s new fleet of helicopters, IMP Aerospace Components is laying off 10 per cent of its workforce.
The Amherst, N.S., company informed the union this week of its plan to cut 30 employees.
Source: TheTruroDailyNews
Lockheed Martin Corp. says it will cut 800 jobs in its Space Systems division — or about 4.5 percent of that group’s work force — primarily in Sunnyvale and Denver.
The Bethesda-based defense contractor says the majority of the cuts will be at space operations, and the company will offer a voluntary retirement plan to minimize the number of layoffs, it says.
The Machinists union at Boeing announced Tuesday a deal to ease the sting of the plane maker’s continuing layoffs. The company has agreed to offer a voluntary layoff package that could be attractive to older workers.
Source: Seattle Times
Boeing will slash about 1,000 jobs from its Integrated Defense Systems department because of funding cuts by the Pentagon, according to a memo to employees. These cuts are in addition to previously announced job cuts at the aerospace giant.
Source: CNN
Leaders of the BAE Systems Electronic Solutions segment in Nashua, N.H., are set to lay off 250 non-engineering employees by 31 Aug. in an effort to sharpen the company’s focus on small, lightweight defense electronics systems for infantry soldiers, situational awareness, and other military priorities of the Obama Administration, company officials announced today.
Source: Military & Aerospace Electronics
United Airlines said Monday that it plans to cut 600 additional flight attendant jobs, effective Aug. 31, as the carrier struggles with lower-than-anticipated attrition and a steep drop in air travel.
Cuts are in addition to the 1,550 flight attendant positions that United eliminated last year.
Source: Chicago Tribune
Boeing is handing out another 300 layoff notices. About 100 of Friday’s 60-day warnings are in the Commercial Airplanes division in the Puget Sound area.
Source: CNBC, AP
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Air France-KLM, Europe’s biggest airline, on Tuesday announced losses of 814 million euros (1.1 billion dollars) for the 2008-2009 fiscal year and said it would have to cut 2,700 jobs.
Air France-KLM employs around 104,000 people and has been hit hard by the economic crisis that has affected much of the global airline industry.
Source: AFP
NASA has this week announced plans to significantly scale back its employee numbers ahead of the official retirement of its stalwart fleet of space shuttle vehicles after almost 30 years of service.
According to NASA officials, a total of 900 jobs will be cut over the next five months, with an initial 160 notifications in relation to external contractors responsible for the manufacturing of the shuttle’s fuel tanks and its solid rocket boosters expected to be dispatched on Friday, May 01.
Source: The Tech Herald
The fate of the F-22 Raptor fighter jet, assembled in Cobb County by 2,000 workers, should be revealed Monday when Defense Secretary Robert Gates unveils “a fundamental shift” in U.S. military priorities.
The Pentagon is alerting key members of Congress this weekend about plans to shrink spending on expensive weapons systems, including the technologically superior F-22. Gates, no big fan of the stealth fighter, will lay out 2010 budget priorities at the Monday afternoon Pentagon press conference.
Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bombardier Inc. will cut 3,000 jobs in its aerospace division because of decreased demand for its business aircraft, the company announced Thursday.
In a news release issued Thursday morning outlining its fourth-quarter results, the Montreal-based company said it expected to deliver about 25 per cent fewer business aircraft this fiscal year and will be cutting its workforce by about 10 per cent.
Source: CBC
Bob Stangarone, vice president of communications with Cessna, says the layoffs will be companywide and affect all pay categories.
The number of layoffs will be announced next month, following the first-quarter report from Cessna’s parent company, Textron Inc., which Stangarone says is expected April 29. The company has already laid off 4,600 workers.
In addition, the company announced a companywide shutdown from July 6 to July 17.
Source: Wichita Business Journal
A downturn in orders at the Airbus factory at Broughton in Flintshire is to result 250 job cuts, unions have been told.
Officials have been in talks with management at the factory, which employs over 6,000 people, and say the company hopes most, if not all the cuts, can be through voluntary redundancies.
Source: News Wales
Connecticut could lose between 2,000 and 3,000 jobs, mostly at United Technologies Corp., if the Pentagon cancels production of the F-22 fighter jet, UTC said Monday.
The cuts would be predominantly at Pratt & Whitney and Hamilton Sundstrand, but would also include job losses at Connecticut suppliers, a UTC spokesman said, clarifying remarks made earlier in the day by Louis Chênevert, UTC’s chief executive.
Any F-22-related cuts at UTC would be in addition to the 11,600 job reductions that UTC said it will make worldwide this year.
General Dynamics Corp. plans to cut 1,200 jobs and reduce production at its Gulfstream Aerospace unit because of reduced demand for private jets. The Falls Church contractor lowered its earnings forecast for 2009 to reflect the lower output.
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) announced Thursday that its Gulfstream Aerospace subsidiary has cut large-cabin aircraft production and green-aircraft deliveries from a projected rate of 94 to 73 for 2009 and will reduce production of its mid-size aircraft from a projected rate of 30 to 24 aircraft this year. The reduced production will result in a reduction-in-force of 1,200 workers. General Dynamics said approximately 550 of those positions are held by contractors.
Source: Washington Business Journal
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