Austrian Airlines to cut staff work time

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Austrian Airlines to cut staff work time

VIENNA (AP) – Austrian Airlines will reduce the working hours of 2,600 employees starting next month to cut expenses, the ailing carrier said Wednesday.

The cost-saving measure will take affect April 1 and is expected to last at least six months, the company said in a statement.

Those affected – all ground personnel – will see either a 20 percent reduction in working hours and a 10 percent pay cut, or a 10 percent reduction in working hours and a 5 percent pay cut.

Trainees, part-time employees and staff who make less than 1,100 ($1,407) will be exempt.

Austrian Airlines is struggling to battle insolvency as it prepares to be taken over by Germany’s Lufthansa AG.

KD Avia to suspend operations due to financial problems

MOSCOW, March 11 (Itar-Tass) – Russian Kaliningrad airline KD Avia will suspend operations at 6:00 p.m. Moscow time on Wednesday for an indefinite period of time due to ongoing financial difficulties, the company’s press secretary Yelena Penkovaya told Tass,

The airline has no more of its own funds to finance its current operations, Penkovaya said. The company has already informed Gennady Kurzenkov, head of the Federal Air Transportation Agency, or Rosaviatsiya, about its financial situation the economic news agency Prime-Tass reported.

The company said that it had sought help from the Transportation Ministry, the Russian government, and the country’s largest banks but had not received any real support so far.

During the suspension, the airline’s passengers will be carried by other airlines, Penkovaya also said.

Established in 2002, KD Avia, previously known as Kaliningradavia, is based at Khrabrovo Airport in the city of Kaliningrad.

NEW YORK, March 11, 2009 (AFP) – An American Airlines passenger plane made a safe emergency landing Wednesday after an engine failed, sending shards of metal into housing below, aviation officials said.

The plane, a McDonnell Douglas 80, landed safely at New York’s JFK Airport on one engine, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesman Jim Peters told AFP. No one among the 93 passengers and crew aboard, or on the ground, was injured.

“After it departed from LaGuardia Airport for Chicago earlier today, the crew reported hearing a loud noise and the number two engine shutting down,” Peters said.

Plane makes emergency landing after takeoff in NYC

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