Allegiant Air will hire 60 new workers to support the opening of a new base of operations at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Allegiant is a low cost airline and subsidiary of Allegiant Travel Company. Additionally the airline will expand its service from Grand Rapids to a sixth destination, Myrtle [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Peabody, Massachusetts’ Analogic, which cut 140 jobs in January, has cut another 85 jobs, or 6% of its remaining workforce. The firm has vacated half of its Copley Controls facility in Canton, transferring operations to Peabody. Founded in 1967, Analogic is an American multinational corporation that employs 1,200 employees globally, with 400 working at the main facility [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Detroit Metro Airport will cut as many as 59 positions by October. Layoffs are being considered. The airport employs 659 workers. The Wayne County Airport Authority, which operates the airport, is adjusting to a 20% drop in revenues from parking, car rentals, and concessions. Delta Air Lines, Detroit Metro’s largest airline, plans to cut its capacity there [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Lockheed Martin will cut 600 jobs in New York, as the federal government cancels a contract to produce a new presidential helicopter. The cuts affect 25% of the workforce at Lockheed Martin’s Owego, New York plant. The project was originally to cost $6.5 billion, but costs had skyrocketed to $13 billion; and the aircraft would not have [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 4, 2009
Cessna Aircraft will cut an undisclosed number of jobs, after the aviation firm cut 6,900 positions this year. The small aircraft manufacturer currently has 12,000 employees. The firm is responding to order cancellations. It delivered 69 jets in Q1 2009, compared to 95 jets in Q1 2008. The Cessna Aircraft Company is an airplane manufacturing corporation headquartered in [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 11, 2009
Complaints by Democratic New York Senator Chuck Schumer and others have cause the Federal Aviation Administration to scuttle plans to move engineering jobs from Queens, New York to Atlanta, Georgia. The FAA had planned to relocate up to 100 jobs from its Jamaica, Queens regional HQ. The move would have been complete in 2011. The FAA is [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, April 25, 2009
Pennsylvania’s DuBois Regional Airport has cut jobs and trimmed work weeks to 35 hours for the remaining staff. The airport’s part-time marketing director was let go, and a fill-time maintenance worker was laid off. Management hopes to bring back both workers when conditions improve. The nine remaining employees will work limited hours until at least October. DuBois Regional [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Airplane manufacturer Hawker Beechcraft is reducing production, and planning an undisclosed number of layoffs at all levels of the company throughout 2009. New CEO Bill Boisture told employees they will be notified of layoffs within the next few weeks. Hawker Beechcraft has gone through two rounds of layoffs since November, when it eliminated 490 positions. In February, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Duncan Aviation will cut more than 300 jobs nationwide. Its facility in Lincoln, Nebraska will lose 170 jobs. Another 122 of the cuts are at its facility in Battle Creek, Michigan. And a dozen cuts are being made in other company avionics facilities. Duncan provides aircraft maintenance in more than a dozen states, at more than 20 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 6, 2009
The Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission announced that FedEx Ground has opened a new 112,734-square-foot operations facility on Monroe Road in Sanford, Florida. The new expansion at Orlando Sanford International Airport has created 50 jobs, bringing the facility’s total employment to 130. The Sanford terminal houses operations for FedEx Ground and FedEx Home Delivery. Share This Story:
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