`AIR POOLS' TAKE OFF FOR BOEING WORKERS.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services Boeing employees in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, can ``air pool'' to work between Hawthorne Airport Hawthorne Airport may refer to:
The Boeing workers can catch a ride on Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. planes that are flown between the two airports six times daily. A trip that normally takes up to two hours each way is reduced to less than 20 minutes in the air, said Mark Johnstone, Boeing Reusable Space Systems' Palmdale site director. The Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Aerospace Alliance, which meets regularly to discuss ways for businesses to lower costs, worked out the plan. ``We now have flights filled closer to capacity than in the past, which results in a lower cost of providing this service to our own employees,'' said William Cleary, Northrop Grumman's AVAA AVAA Association of Veterans Affairs Anesthesiologists AVAA Asian Veterans Athletic Association Palmdale representative. Discussions are under way with other Plant 42 aerospace contractors, including Lockheed Martin, about expanding the service, Johnstone said. ``Without access to this service, our employees would spend unnecessary hours driving between our facilities in Southern California, decreasing productivity and increasing our operations costs,'' Johnstone said. |
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