19 cabin crew, most perm contract some summer contract have been told that they must move base or face redundancy. A B757 was taken away from NCL at the end of last year and deployed elsewhere on the network, the crew requirement was good for the summer program, however NCL has a vastly reduced winter program. There are some 30 odd vacancies for CC at LBA 5 at MAN and a few at EDI and the crew have been offered these places, however there is no guarantee that they can return to NCL next summer (but the likelyhood is that they can but probably only for the summer). The summer contract pilots have been let go which is normal for the winter season. Like most airlines Jet2 has a tight grip on costs and decisions have to be taken sometime which are not pleasant, however it is for this very reason that Jet2 will not only survive this downturn it will continue to remain profitable.
My sympathy goes to the crew affected, they are a great bunch!
Last edited by bluepilot; 26th Sep 2008 at 21:34.