Hawaiian Airlines lays off 98 workers

Hawaiian Airlines today laid off 98 non-union employees and said it will not fill another 38 vacant positions as part of a companywide cost-cutting effort.
The move will save the state's largest airline about $4 million a year and comes as Hawaiian is facing soaring fuel prices and increased competition on its interisland and Mainland routes.
Hawaiian said the reductions — less than 3 percent of the company's total payroll but about 20 percent of the management staff — are driven more by changing consumer behavior than by low fares.
Hawaiian said the layoffs were the result of six months of study. The layoffs include 47 of its 224 management positions.
None of the jobs involves the airline's roughly 3,000 unionized workers, and about 40 percent of the layoffs are on the Mainland.
Dunkerley said the cuts include some 20 workers in Hawaiian's information technology division, which is in the process of being outsourced to vendors in India.
Founded in 1929, Hawaiian is the state's oldest and biggest carrier, with 3,493 employees, following today's cuts.
24/05/07 Rick Daysog/Honolulu Advertiser

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