LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — 999 Las Vegas Spirit Airlines employees will be laid off, according to a document.
Spirit sent a “WARN Notice of Layoff and Closure at Spirit Airlines” to the Nevada Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation and to the City of Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley. It says the airline will permanently cease operations at Harry Reid Airport and lay off the employees on Saturday.
The document says this includes 149 ALPA-represented at 779 AFA-represented workers. Officials say they did not provide earlier notice because they were pursuing financing during Chapter 11, but later faced rapidly worsening conditions. The letter cites fuel price increases.
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The letter shows that flight attendants are most impacted, with 772 laid off.
The table below is as seen in the document.
| Job titles affected | Number of affected employees |
|---|---|
| Auditor, APS QA Compl | 1 |
| Base Chief Pilot | 1 |
| Captain | 59 |
| Coord, Contract MX Progrm | 1 |
| Dir, Corp Tax + Intl Acct | 1 |
| Dir, Inflight Ops & Perf | 1 |
| Dir, Station | 1 |
| First Officer | 90 |
| Flight Att / Instructor | 7 |
| Flight Attendant | 772 |
| Flight Ops Base Admin I | 1 |
| Guest Svc OPS Controller | 2 |
| Ld Splst, Material Log | 2 |
| Lead Technician | 5 |
| Mgr II, Bus Resilience | 1 |
| Mgr II, Guest Service | 1 |
| Mgr, Inflight Base Ops | 1 |
| OP Departure Controller P | 3 |
| OPS Departure Controller | 4 |
| Program Lead, APS Trng | 1 |
| Ramp OPS Controller | 3 |
| Regional Mgr, AP Services | 1 |
| Regionl Training Prgrm Ld | 1 |
| Specialist, HR Care Cntr | 1 |
| Splst, Material Log | 8 |
| Sr Mgr Talent Acquisition | 1 |
| Sr Technician | 9 |
| Sup, Airport Ops | 2 |
| Sup, Inflight | 3 |
| Sup, Maintenance | 4 |
| Supv, Material Logistics | 1 |
| Technician | 1 |
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