British Airways owner IAG battles staff over plans to cut 4500 jobs

British Airways owner IAG battles staff over plans to cut 4500 jobs Telegraph.co.uk The airlines group intends to axe almost a quarter of Iberia's 20,000-strong workforce and cut Iberia's fleet of 104 aircraft by 25 – the majority of which will be short-haul planes. The number of flights flown by Iberia across its network will be ... See all stories on this topic » Telegraph.co.uk

IAG to cut 4500 jobs in Iberia restructuring Huffington Post LONDON — International Airlines Group warned on Friday that its Spanish carrier Iberia was "in a fight for survival" and unveiled a restructuring plan to cut 4,500 jobs as it reported a drop in third-quarter profit. Iberia CEO Rafael Sanchez-Lozano ... See all stories on this topic »

International Airlines Group boss faces second battle with staff in three years The Guardian The International Airlines Group boss Willie Walsh is lining up for a second major battle with his own staff in three years after announcing 4,500 jobs will be cut at Iberia, the Spanish airline he merged with British Airways. On the back of further ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Spanish airline Iberia to cut nearly a quarter of its workforce Fox News IAG said a Jan. 31, 2013, deadline has been set for reaching a deal with the unions, but that if no agreement is signed more job cuts and a greater reduction in Iberia's size and operations will be necessary to safeguard the company's future. Iberia ... See all stories on this topic »

IAG unveils major Iberia restructuring plan, to cut 4500 jobs ATWOnline The airline has set a deadline of Jan. 31, 2013 to reach ... The three main unions—SEPLA, UGT, and CCOO—have reacted angrily to the proposed job cuts and in a joint statement said they were willing to resort to industrial action if necessary. IB CEO ... See all stories on this topic »

Iberia to cut 4500 jobs, a quarter of airline's workforce euronews The Spanish airline Iberia is to cut four and a half thousand jobs – a quarter of its workforce. Its parent company, International Airlines Group, says the aim is to save the company which is “struggling for survival”. A deadline has been fixed for the ... See all stories on this topic » euronews

UPDATE 4-IAG's Iberia to axe 4500 jobs in 'fight for survival' Reuters In addition to the job losses, IAG said it will cut capacity in the airline's network by 15 percent in 2013, focusing on profitable routes and downsizing its fleet by 25 aircraft. "Although radical changes are proposed at Iberia, this reflects the ... See all stories on this topic »

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IDC projects healthy public cloud services growth through 2016 TechTarget The latest prognostication about public cloud computing from IDC calls for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.5 percent between now and 2016 – with$43.2 billion in revenue anticipated by the end of the forecast period. (That compares with $18.5 ... See all stories on this topic »

MediSapiens Bags First Pharma Customer for Cloud-Based Oncology R&D ... GenomeWeb Finnish bioinformatics firm MediSapiens has signed its first customer for OncoGenomics Explorer, acloud computing-based application launched last September for use in cancer genomics research (BI 9/21/2012). The company said this week that Bayer ... See all stories on this topic »

ViaWest Partners with SolidFire on SSD Storage Ping! Zine Web Tech Magazine Zine Web Tech Magazine) - ViaWest, one of the largest privately held data center, cloud computingand managed service providers in North America, announces its partnership with SolidFire to now offer predictable high performance solid-state drive (SSD) ... See all stories on this topic »