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March 12, 2009
Delta announced Thursday that it will create about 50 new full-time jobs at its Salt Lake City hub as a result of a plan to consolidate some operations and staff responsibilities as well as shift a portion of the regional operations to mainline gates.
Starting May 15, Delta will shift the ground handling of approximately 34 SkyWest flights at SLC to Delta’s Airport Customer Service team. Additionally, Delta will begin handling all baggage transfers for flights to and from all Delta and Delta Connection concourses.
In addition to creating the new jobs, the changes will achieve significant cost savings, deliver better baggage-handling performance and improve the customer experience. The openings will be posted on eBid on DeltaNet.
“We plan to assemble a superb team of people who will work hard to ensure aircraft handling and our baggage transfer process is among the best in the industry,” Gil West, s.v.p.-Airport Customer Service, said in a memo to ACS employees in Salt Lake City on Thursday. “Even before the merger was approved by the [U.S. Department of Justice], we identified opportunities to bring subcontracted work in-house. We have followed through on that commitment and are clearly well on our way toward combining station operations. Today’s announcement is just another example of our commitment to bring jobs in-house when it makes business sense to do so.”
Delta announced Thursday that it will create about 50 new full-time jobs at its Salt Lake City hub as a result of a plan to consolidate some operations and staff responsibilities as well as shift a portion of the regional operations to mainline gates.
Starting May 15, Delta will shift the ground handling of approximately 34 SkyWest flights at SLC to Delta’s Airport Customer Service team. Additionally, Delta will begin handling all baggage transfers for flights to and from all Delta and Delta Connection concourses.
In addition to creating the new jobs, the changes will achieve significant cost savings, deliver better baggage-handling performance and improve the customer experience. The openings will be posted on eBid on DeltaNet.
“We plan to assemble a superb team of people who will work hard to ensure aircraft handling and our baggage transfer process is among the best in the industry,” Gil West, s.v.p.-Airport Customer Service, said in a memo to ACS employees in Salt Lake City on Thursday. “Even before the merger was approved by the [U.S. Department of Justice], we identified opportunities to bring subcontracted work in-house. We have followed through on that commitment and are clearly well on our way toward combining station operations. Today’s announcement is just another example of our commitment to bring jobs in-house when it makes business sense to do so.”