No kidding, did the couple buy offsetting carbon credits to cancel that flight out?
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CanJet Airlines to lay off most of its staff, as European routes dropped
Halifax-based charter airline will examine all options, including return to scheduled flights
By Sophia Harris, CBC News Posted: Apr 14, 2015 8:58 AM ET Last Updated: Apr 14, 2015 2:59 PM ET
CanJet Airlines will lay off 47 pilots and 68 permanent and seasonal flight attendants by May, after canceling its European routes, CBC News has learned.
The cuts total more than 70 per cent of the charter airline's flying staff. CanJet currently employs about 62 pilots and 100 flight attendants.
The airline has ceased its Europe operations, because the venture "is simply not profitable," company president Stephen Rowe said in an email to CBC News
"It is disappointing we have to realign our employee group today to a much smaller group," he said.
CanJet, a subsidiary of Halifax-based IMP Group, launched its own vacation package deals last year. It also provides charter flights on behalf of Transat Holidays, but that partnership will soon come to an end, resulting in more lost business.
Rowe said the company is exploring its options and that "everything is on the table," including possibly adding scheduled flights in Canada and internationally.
Constant layoffs
CanJet has been plagued over the past few years by shrinking business and layoffs.
18 CanJet flight attendants laid off in Halifax
This past winter, it cancelled 40 per cent of its planned flights and laid off 21 pilots. Rowe said the company had to make the cuts because it overestimated sales for its first winter season offering vacation packages.
The union representing the airline's pilots is suggesting CanJet Vacations could also be doomed.
In a memo to members obtained by CBC News, the Air Line Pilots Association wrote: "We have been advised that the fate of CanJet Vacations is not entirely clear, however, from our perspective it is. It appears that the desire to continue past this summer has unfortunately been lost after only nine months of selling."
But Rowe maintained that CanJet Vacations could live on, "as we had as we had great support during our first year of operation." But he also admitted that "pricing in this business segment is a challenge."
Feelings of deception
The union memo also criticized how CanJet is managing the cuts.
"It is unfortunate that we have been put in this situation," the memo said, adding that the union shares members' "feelings of being deceived and disrespected.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canj...pped-1.3031931
