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Janet Silvera
Senior Gleaner Writer
WESTERN BUREAU:
The Philadelphia-Montego Bay route is the first to be slashed by Air Jamaica in its new round of rationalisation.
Efforts to book a flight with the carrier this evening for any date after July 1 were unsuccessful.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Summer starts on July 1. </span>
Philadelphia, The Gleaner is told has been deemed one of the unprofitable routes for the former national carrier, which registered an unaudited loss of US$38 million to its Trinidadians owners, Caribbean Airlines (CAL) in 2011.
The cut of the Philadelphia route marks the start to the significant changes to be made by the airline, which will in a few weeks drop 60 more Jamaican employees, as CAL moves its aircraft hangar from Kingston to Trinidad and Tobago, according to a source at the airline.
"This is the final blow for aircraft engineers in Jamaica, they will have to find jobs overseas," said the source.
The news comes on the same day the 75 Air Jamaica pilots sat through interviews trying to get new jobs with CAL, one month after their positions with CARIBAL were made redundant.
CARIBAL is a CAL subsidiary.
"It is obvious now, more than ever, that all 75 will not be getting back their jobs, because we are now cutting routes," the source said.
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Senior Gleaner Writer
WESTERN BUREAU:
The Philadelphia-Montego Bay route is the first to be slashed by Air Jamaica in its new round of rationalisation.
Efforts to book a flight with the carrier this evening for any date after July 1 were unsuccessful.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Summer starts on July 1. </span>
Philadelphia, The Gleaner is told has been deemed one of the unprofitable routes for the former national carrier, which registered an unaudited loss of US$38 million to its Trinidadians owners, Caribbean Airlines (CAL) in 2011.
The cut of the Philadelphia route marks the start to the significant changes to be made by the airline, which will in a few weeks drop 60 more Jamaican employees, as CAL moves its aircraft hangar from Kingston to Trinidad and Tobago, according to a source at the airline.
"This is the final blow for aircraft engineers in Jamaica, they will have to find jobs overseas," said the source.
The news comes on the same day the 75 Air Jamaica pilots sat through interviews trying to get new jobs with CAL, one month after their positions with CARIBAL were made redundant.
CARIBAL is a CAL subsidiary.
"It is obvious now, more than ever, that all 75 will not be getting back their jobs, because we are now cutting routes," the source said.
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