American Airlines closes the doors on KC overhaul base today

[pstokely]

American Airlines closes the doors on KC overhaul base today
By RANDOLPH HEASTER
The Kansas City Star
Among the 450 workers left Thursday at American Airlines’ overhaul base in Kansas City were (from left) Ron Harp, Gordon Clark and M.E. Johnson. The facility, which once employed some 6,000 people, is closing today.
Rich Sugg
Among the 450 workers left Thursday at American Airlines’ overhaul base in Kansas City were (from left) Ron Harp, Gordon Clark and M.E. Johnson. The facility, which once employed some 6,000 people, is closing today.


Soaring in the early 1970s, the aircraft overhaul base at Kansas City International Airport employed nearly 6,000 people.

But like a plane losing altitude, that job figure fell through the decades: 4,900 … 3,500 … 2,600 … 1,000 … 450.

Today that number hits zero for American Airlines, ending five decades of commercial aviation maintenance that provided good-paying jobs for generations of workers.


Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/09/23/2246289/american-airlines-closes-the-doors.html#ixzz10XowAcO6

[KG]

1. sure am glad the recession is over!

:eyes:

[madrchsod]

2. new jobs for second world workers...

well at least someone will have a job....

[spartan61]

3. Is AA outsourcing their maintenance???

Certainly Tulsa can't absorb all the KC workers. How very sad.