If you are a regular reader of this site then you know that we have talked about American Airlines in the past. The odds are good that you also know about the absolute bottom line job stripping that they have been doing in the last couple of months. It seems like since the company has filed for bankruptcy they have been going to extremes in order to get rid of as many members of their staff as they can in attempts to slash their costs without having to make any real cuts to senior management’s salaries or benefits in the process.

These cuts are impacting airlines all over the world as the company gets rid of staff and terminal after terminal and actually cuts back on the number of flights that they will be offering to the public. This time the loss of jobs is coming to the workers at the Ontario International Airport. American Airlines will be cutting back on not some, but all of their staff members at the Ontario International Airport in an effort to reduce their costs. The only bright side to this layoff is that, despite the obviously high percentage of job cuts, the actual number of job cuts is not that high. The company will only be getting rid of about 18 jobs when all is said and done.

Well, to be fair the layoff will not really be total. One worker will be spared the search for a new job. The American Airlines manager at the Ontario International Airport will be able to keep his job. Though what he will have to manage with all of the workers gone seems to be a little bit of a mystery at the current moment.
Does this mean that they are going to be putting an end to flights out of the Ontario International Airport? Of course not, the company has decided that instead of keeping on its own workers that they are going to outsource the jobs they are cutting to a third party company. They have not, at the current moment, chosen to divulge if this maneuver will actually save them a substantial amount of money or if the decision will only save a nominal amount of cash when all is said and done. Of course, for the time being no official announcement of the outsourcing, or the company that is going to pick up the jobs has been given at the current moment.

The workers have not been given an official notice, as it stands right now the company does not even have an official date for when it will be getting rid of the workers. They have more of a date range. According to the available information the layoff will happen sometime between 60 days from now and 120 days from now.

In a statement made to a reporter for the Press Enterprise Bruce Hicks, a spokesman for the airline, said the following about the job cuts, “The decisions in reshaping these departments — including in some cases, outsourcing, creating different tiers of work, closing some operations and moving some work to home-based positions — were not made lightly. While very difficult, all of these approaches are designed to preserve tens of thousands of jobs and return American to a sustainable, profitable airline”