Archive for the 'air' Category
Friday, September 11th, 2009
NetJets Inc., the unprofitable plane-leasing unit owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., is cutting more than 300 jobs after replacing its chief executive officer.
“Severe economic conditions facing the aviation industry” have reduced demand for flights, Columbus, Ohio-based NetJets said today in an e-mailed statement. Ted Lowen, a spokesman for NetJets, said the cuts could affect as many as 350 employees. The company said the reduction involves about 5 percent of staff, which was about 8,000 at the end of 2008.
Source: Bloomberg
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Midwest Airlines Inc. is laying off 59 more flight crew members as the Oak Creek-based carrier continues to replace Boeing 717 jets with jets operated by Midwest’s new owner, Republic Airways Holdings Inc.
Source: JSOnline
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
American Airlines will layoff 228 flight attendants in October, the company announced Tuesday.
American had warned flight attendants that more than 1,200 could be furloughed as the airline cuts back on flights this fall. But the airline was able to reduce the number of involuntary job reductions.
Source: NBC DFW
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
About 1,700 jobs are to be cut at Continental Airlines Inc., which on Tuesday reported an increased second-quarter loss.
Source: Pacific Business News (Honolulu)
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
A small number of Delta Air Lines Inc. pilots — just 215 — have agreed to retire as part of a company incentive program designed to reduce the number of pilots to cut costs. Of 12,379 pilots at Delta, some 9,400 were eligible to participate.
Source: CNBC, AP
~News submitted by upthecreek
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
US Airways Group Inc., the smallest full-fare U.S. carrier, will eliminate 600 airport service and baggage-handling jobs to pare costs after the peak summer travel season ends in September.
Source: Bloomberg
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
British Airways PLC announced Friday it will ground aircraft, slash seat numbers and postpone taking delivery of a dozen new Airbus A380 superjumbos as it faces a recession-driven decline in passengers. British Airways, which employs 40,000 people, is looking to cut 2,000 flight attendants and 1,500 ground workers.
Source: GoogleNews, AP
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
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
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
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
~News submitted by upthecreek
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
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
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
India’s airlines, in a slump, are sending the following message to the cockpit: Foreign pilots, go home.
It’s an abrupt turnaround from the past several years, when Western pilots looked to growing markets like India as saviors for their profession. While carriers in the U.S. and Europe struggled with the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, India was opening its skies to new domestic carriers — and hiring hundreds of foreign pilots to fill the new planes with experienced fliers.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
According to The Wichita Eagle: “Cessna Aircraft is planning to hand out 60-day layoff notices Wednesday to perhaps as many as 2,800 people, sources said this week.”
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
According to Reuters: “Delta Air Lines Inc has stopped using India-based call centers to handle sales and reservations, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
The move makes the airline the latest U.S. company to decide the cost benefits of directing calls offshore are outweighed by backlash from customers”..”Customers had complained they had trouble communicating with Indian agents”.. “Delta will keep some Jamaica and South Africa centers, which haven’t generated such vociferous complaints”.
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Qantas Airways Ltd, Australia’s top airline, moved to rein in costs with another round of job cuts, this time targeting its senior management team, to help it ride out the global financial crisis.
Qantas will shed 90 top management positions adding to 1,500 job cuts announced last year, it said on Wednesday.
The airline said in a statement it would a maintain a salary freeze and make a number of role changes for remaining managers.
Source: Reuters
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
According to Bloomberg: “American Airlines, the world’s second-biggest carrier, plans to lay off 323 flight attendants April,1 after an insufficient number of employees accepted voluntary leaves or retirement. “
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