Alaska Airlines to Consolidate Heavy Maintenance in Oakland: Seattle to Expand Daily and Intermediate Maintenance.Business Editors, Airline Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 2001 Alaska Airlines Alaska Airlines, (NYSE: ALK) is an airline based in Seattle, Washington, United States. It operates hubs at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, and Portland International Airport. announced today it will consolidate its heavy maintenance operations in Oakland and focus its Seattle base on other maintenance needs. Currently, Alaska operates a heavy maintenance line in Seattle for B737s and in Oakland for MD-80s. "The base consolidation will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our entire maintenance and engineering operation," said Mickey Cohen Meyer Harris Cohen (4 September 1913 in Brooklyn, New York – 29 July 1976 in Los Angeles, California) was a gangster based in L.A. from the 1930s through 1970s. Early life In 1913, Mickey Cohen was born in Brooklyn, NY. , senior vice president of maintenance and engineering. "At the same time, we want to ensure that there will be no loss of jobs and as little disruption disruption /dis·rup·tion/ (dis-rup´shun) a morphologic defect resulting from the extrinsic breakdown of, or interference with, a developmental process. as possible for our people. This achieves both of those objectives." As part of the new approach, the Seattle base will focus on the airline's growing daily line maintenance needs as well as a soon-to-be-created intermediate maintenance function. With two heavy-check lines in operation, the size of the Oakland base will increase from the current 222 employees to approximately 350, when the program is fully implemented in 2003. Many of the 226 Seattle maintenance technicians and support personnel who are currently heavy-check employees will be needed to staff the new intermediate maintenance line in Seattle. The remainder will have the option of transferring to Oakland, the Seattle line maintenance group or other positions that come open in the Alaska Airlines system. The decision to consolidate heavy maintenance in Oakland came at the conclusion of a comprehensive year-long evaluation process that considered 55 sites, which were later narrowed to eight: Seattle; Oakland; Tucson; San Bernardino San Bernardino, city, United States San Bernardino (săn bûr'nədē`nō), city (1990 pop. 164,164), seat of San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Bernardino Mts.; inc. 1854. ; Portland; Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. ; and two sites in Sacramento. For more news and information, visit the Alaska Airlines Newsroom on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the at http://newsroom.alaskaair.com. |
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