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October 27, 2005
US Airline attempting outsourcing flight attendents?
US carrier Northwest, the world's fourth largest airline, is considering among other things staffing international flights with attendants from third-party vendors.
Northwest, which filed for bankruptcy-court protection last month, wants to become a "virtual airline" by outsourcing staff, technology and business functions as much as possible.
Unlike other full service large carriers in the US, Northwest has been suffering from increasing labor costs due to experienced and unionized resources. In the case of flight attendants the most senior members get to fly international routes.
According to a report by Wall Street Journal, the airline is asking for flights across the Atlantic and Pacific and all of its flights between Amsterdam and India be staffed by regional flight attendants. Northwest already employs 700 Asian attendants from bases in Japan, China, South Korea, the Philippines and other countries.
Northwest perhaps is learning the hard way that when it comes to flight attendants old certainly is not gold!
Posted by admin at October 27, 2005 02:49 AM