American Airlines says it will hire 1,500 pilots over the next five years. Continue reading
U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 380,748 workers in April 2013, 2.4 percent fewer than in April 2012, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today. April was the eighth consecutive month that full-time equivalent (FTE) employment for U.S. scheduled passenger carriers was below that of the same month of the previous year Continue reading
After negotiations with the union and early retirement packages, company and union officials said this month that American would lay off 300 mechanics and about 70 fleet service workers in Tulsa by February. The layoffs will be effective in November … American Airlines layoffs leave families up in the air | Tulsa World.
American Airlines Inc. today said it would hire more than 1,500 new flight attendants in the next year to serve its international flight and training needs. American will begin the recruiting and hiring process next month and training will begin in January. The hiring news comes three weeks after 2,250 American flight attendants signed up … Continue reading
American Airlines will close its Fort Worth maintenance base by the end of the year, lay off 839 Tulsa mechanics and consolidate major aircraft maintenance operations in Tulsa and at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, company executives said Monday. More than 1,700 mechanics & related workers at American’s three aircraft overhaul bases will be laid off … Continue reading
More than 200 Trans World Airlines flight attendants are about to go back to work, nearly 11 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that caused an airline industry slowdown. The recall of 211 workers announced Thursday means that effective Nov. 17, there won’t be a single former TWA attendant on furlough for the … Continue reading
Facing layoffs and other cuts, unions at American Airlines back merger bid from US Airways US Airways made an end run around its larger rival and secured the support of American’s three labour unions in its bid to force a merger. The unions were angry with American over its plan to cut jobs and squeeze … Continue reading
American Airlines plans to lay off 1,200 nonunion workers by the end of the summer as it closes an Arizona reservation center and outsources skycaps and some customer service and gate agents as part of its corporate restructuring. On Wednesday, the Fort Worth-based airline outlined plans to reduce annual employee costs by $95 million for … Continue reading
When American Airlines announced bankruptcy-fueled layoffs at the company’s maintenance base in Tulsa, the initial worry was for the thousands of local workers slated for layoffs. That concern has spread to fear for Oklahoma’s aerospace industry itself. If plans to layoff 2,100 workers at the Tulsa maintenance base go through, the loss could mean losing … Continue reading
The flight attendants’ union says that because of job-sharing and other steps, American Airlines won’t have to furlough 500 workers this spring. American said two weeks ago that it planned to cut 500 flight attendants because it’s flying less than it did a year ago. via Union says 500 layoffs averted at American – Sacramento … Continue reading