More than 100 Ravn Alaska staff have lost their jobs, a company spokesperson confirmed Friday afternoon.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - More than 100 Ravn Alaska staff have lost their jobs, a company spokesperson confirmed Friday afternoon. The spokesperson went on to provide a short statement to Alaska’s News Source from CEO Rob McKinney saying, “130 were unfortunately laid off today.
” Alaska’s News Source asked for what specific positions were cut, but the spokesperson declined to go into more specifics. In an email to employees on Friday, McKinney wrote that the company was not “giving up or throwing in the towel.” “This is like what so many other airlines have gone through to become a viable service that can then begin to grow anew,” he wrote. “The hard truth is that we never really left oldco in the past. Due to the need to restart as quickly as we did, we ended up adopting many practices and policies that are inefficient at best.” The CEO listed three challenges that contributed to the decision: inflation, labor shortages and “unexpected competition” on some of Ravn’s routes. “Despite our best efforts with schedules, pricing, and previous attempts at right sizing, we still were not hitting the profitability mark,” McKinney wrote. McKinney concluded the email by writing that Ravn will “emerge as a stronger company” as a result of the restructuring. It’s unclear if airline leadership will release a public statement on the staff reduction, and how operations will be impacted.“While Ravn Alaska is entering a new and exciting chapter, it will continue to be an Alaska aviation company,” McKinney said in August 2020. “We are working as safely and as quickly as possible to get back to the skies, and are looking forward to our return as Alaska’s hometown airline servicing the vibrant communities who depend on us.”, while also providing regular service to eight other communities — Aniak, Cold Bay, Valdez, King Salmon, Sand Point, St. Mary’s, St. Paul and Unalakleet. At that time, the company said they were facing aBrent Sass disqualified from 2024 Iditarod, calls accusations ‘completely false’Following transformative experience, Palmer woman advocates for donor rights in Washington, D.C.
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