Reading Time: < 1 minute Air Seychelles is planning to fire 174 employees, including nearly 100 cabin crew, as a part of the restructuring drive in the wake of turbulence within the Etihad Aviation Group, the Seychellois airline’s largest shareholder, following the demise of Air Berlin, financial troubles at Alitalia, and growing international competition, the Seychelles News Agency has reported. […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Following on from the announcement that 245 workers are to be laid off on May 19 after action taken by Boeing in January and March this year, the commercial airplanes unit has warned employees that hundreds more engineers are likely to be affected by another round of involuntary layoffs. It is understood these will begin […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Republic Airways plans to lay off 161 workers at its Port Columbus facility and close its heavy maintenance operation there as it continues to reorganize after its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing this year. Republic operates commuter-jet flights on behalf of the major airlines. In a letter to the Ohio Office of Workforce Development, the airline […]