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Old 7th Apr 2009, 20:28
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Albert Hall
 
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Talking to an ex-colleague who now works at Eastern, it sounds like three of the J41s are heading to Romania and they are trying hard to offload more. They have up to seven in storage at any time.

There have been a number of redundancies in engineering, and redundancies in flight crew are imminent - they are apparently over-crewed after taking Flightline guys under TUPE with the Scatsta contract but also recruiting heavily at the same time. Rumours of 40-50 people to go across the company but the main cuts so far have been in engineering. A couple of senior managers have gone, contractors are being stopped and work brought in-house from outside companies.

The other rumour which has been doing the rounds - and I stress it's a rumour - is that they will pull out of schedules completely and concentrate on charters. Schedules sound to be suffering badly and over half of the flying is now charter contracts which are guaranteed cash. The first two rumours would certainly tie in with the third if the company was down-sizing before publicly announcing that schedules were to be chopped.
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