Thursday, December 8, 2011

Frontier cuts staff while other low-cost airlines boost theirs - Jacksonville Business Journal:

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percent since 2008, according to a report released Overall, the number of employees in the struggling passenger airlinre industryfell 5.7 percent from April 2008, accordinvg to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, a divisiomn of the . The industry, which has been particularly hard hit by thecurren recession, has seen year-over-year employment declines for nine straigh months. Low-cost airlines — those operating under a low-cost business modelp with reduced infrastructure and aircraft operatingcostws — registered year-over-year growth for the first time since September 2007.
Carriersx Virgin America and Allegiant led the waywith double-digigt percentage job growth, while , the third-largest carrier at , grew by 1,6178 workers, a jump of 4.8 percent. But Denver-basede Frontier, which is cutting operational costsx in its attempt to come out of reduced its staff by 759 workers over the past according tothe report. The 14.8 perceny work force reductionfor Frontier, DIA’s second-larges carrier, was the third-largest decline amongt the 37 airlines listed in the United, DIA’s largest carrier, reducede staff by roughly 7,200 people in the past That 13.
4 percent cut was the largest among the sevenn “network” airlines that operate a significant portion of their flights using at leastg one hub, according to the Roughly 392,100 people are employed now by passenger airlines.

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