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Topic: United Continental to cut
600 front-office jobs |
United Continental to cut
600 front-office jobs
Chicago Tribune, by Gregory Karp
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Posted By:JoniTx, 1/24/2013 4:05:04 PM
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| United Continental Holdings Inc. will cut about 600 front-office jobs through voluntary and involuntary cuts, the company said Thursday as it announced disappointing financial losses for 2012. The world´s largest airline did not detail where cutbacks will take place, but Chicago is likely to be most affected considering the corporate headquarters and network operations center are in downtown Chicago and that Chicago O´Hare airport is one of the airline´s largest hubs. The job cuts were announced Thursday morning during a conference call about the airline´s profits. United officials said they were disappointed in the airline company´s 2012 performance
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
viking diver, 1/24/2013 4:55:19 PM (No. 9137239)
well why is your business going down...
let see sour & unfriendly flight attendents
nickle and dime you for every bag
no food unless you pay top dollar for their crap
never on time anymore
half the time miss connecting flights
TSA gropping everyone
baggage handlers destroying luggage and stealing from the bags
seats so close together your knees up against your chin
need I go on
and the sad part is they are better than most of the other airlines
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
nimby, 1/24/2013 6:08:54 PM (No. 9137408)
Watch for further cuts as customers stop flying that airline. I experienced 4 mechanical delays (some over night)in 6 flights. And one of them they messed up my reservation
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
KTWO, 1/24/2013 8:00:33 PM (No. 9137568)
Their CEO sure makes happy talk. Whether it impresses the lost customers remains to be seen.
OTOH the airline does have an operating profit. The losses came from consolidating staff, buyouts, merging facilities, etc. Those should be one time expenses and end.
The grounding of the Dreamliners is bad. But Boeing may be on the hook for those losses.
Why stay in downtown Chicago? That must cost plenty.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LadyVet, 1/24/2013 9:20:14 PM (No. 9137693)
Continental was based in Houston. Why stay in Chicago with high taxes when they can move the operations to Texas and get lower taxes and probably fewer union employees. Win-win.
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