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Transportation / Storage Land, Water And Air Transportation Air Transport 51.10 - Passenger air transport
159 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
27 September 2012
Employment effect (start)
16 March 2012
Foreseen end date
31 December 2012
Description
Latvian national air carrier airBaltic will dismiss 159 employees by the end of this year.
The airline is implementing the restructuring plan ReShape developed by the company's new CEO Martin Gauss. The plan, which is intended to reduce costs by 16%, includes fleet modernization, cost optimization, operational efficiency, revenue enhancement and network improvements.
On March 16 AirBaltic informed the State Employment agency about collective dismissal plan, indicating that they are planned to be carried out in several stages until the end of year. The affected workforce includes administration workers, analytics, financiers, ticket sellers, marketing specialists, accountants, mechanics, engineers and technicians. The most affected category is pilots (35 dismissals) and flight attendants (30 dismissals). On 27th September the vice-president of the airline JÄnis Vanags confirmed that the restructuring, is going according to the plan.
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Sources
27 September 2012: www.delfi.lv
27 September 2012: Neatkarīgā Rīta avīze
Citation
Eurofound (2012), airBaltic, Internal restructuring in Latvia, factsheet number 74180, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74180.
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