Alaska Airlines to cut up to 100 management jobs

Wednesday, 15 Oct, 2018 0

Alaska Airlines is reportedly planning to downsize its management workforce.

About 100 management positions will go as Alaska looks to reverse a dip in financial performance in recent months.

According to the Seattle Times the airline informed the workforce before last weekend of ‘management reductions’ but gave few specifics.

However it said it will not impact ‘front-line employees’ such as flight crew, customer service, call center staff, or maintenance and operations control.

Costs for Alaska Air Group have sharply risen as it merged with Virgin America, at a time when fuel costs keep climbing.

Many of the positions being cut are likely overlapping ones which haven’t been phased out yet since the Alaska-Virgin merger.

The company said more details of the job cuts will be announced in a few weeks.

Alaska’s Q2 operating profit was down more than 40% compared to a year earlier.

 



 

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