part of a memo from nigel turner this morning,
this memo covers other things such as pay e.t.c but here is the bmibaby relevant bit..........
bmibaby
With that background, on the recommendation of bmibaby’s executive team, we have decided that bmibaby’s capacity needs to be reduced next year, in order to remove development routes that currently have insufficient demand to justify their retention. We also need to reshape the bmibaby network to create more operational efficiency, which will also allow us to reduce management overhead in the Tiny Town head office.
We had already planned significant winter capacity reductions, but will now not replace three aircraft that have either come or are coming to the end of their leases and will be reducing the peak flying programme in 2009 to 17 aircraft. This will unfortunately have an inevitable impact on the number of operational jobs required and will require some reductions in the management overhead structure. Today we are therefore commencing a 30 day consultation with the relevant unions about the 70.1 full time equivalent positions at risk, which are concentrated in the Birmingham base and a few in East Midlands. We will as usual endeavour to minimise compulsory job losses but are not in a position where we can carry surplus jobs until the market recovers to such an extent that we feel able to grow the business again.