Brent Jang. “Air Canada temporarily lays off 345 flight attendants” The Globe and Mail, 26 Jan. 2009: B3 The recession is reducing a travel dements, following by cuts in aircrafts jobs. Starting March of 2009, Air Canada, the biggest Canadian airlines, is planning to cut 345 flight attendances. One of the strategy is to remove one of the flight attendance from transatlantic flight, where sometimes three attendance at the front of the plane. The cuts mean for example, a Boeing 767 flying overseas typically would be operating with six instead of seven attendants in business class.
In 1994, the idea for a more personable, reasonably priced airline from Canada to United States was in the mist of development. The airline industry is a rough one in which ninety percent of start-up companies’ fail. One airline, on the other hand, has been profitable since its start. It began with only two planes in 1996 and grew to an unbelievable twenty-one by 2000. Finally, in April 2001 Olive Beddoe, Don Bell, Mark Hill, and Tom Morgan officially unveiled WestJet Airlines.
It has also deferred the delivery of the last eight A380 super jumbos it has on order, as well as the last three of 14 new 787 Dreamliners due for Jetstar. It will also shelve growth plans for Singaporean budget offshoot Jetstar Asia amid intense competition with other budget airlines in the region. Qantas shares fell sharply Thursday, down about 6.5 per cent at $1.1875. Qantas declared a statutory loss of $235 million for the six months to December, compared with a $109 million profit in the same period a year earlier. Revenue fell 4 per cent to $7.9 billion.
However, major airline companies are actually doing the complete opposite, and are reducing domestic capacity this year, in order to increase fare prices. Looks like some cities will be offered less choice in picking their flights. Now, everyone will have to get used to sitting elbow to elbow,
Party membership has decreased over recent years which correlate into less people voting. In 1980, 4.12% of electorate were party members; fallen to 0.95% in 2008. The Labour party, 1950, has more than 1 million members and in 2009 it has fallen to 166,000. The Conservative party, 1950 had 2.8 million members and in 2009 it has also fallen dramatically to only 250,000. This means there are not enough activists to engage voters, because if you are a member of a political party you will help with posters, propaganda, spreading the ideologies of your party, but with fewer members joining than in past years, there will be fewer members voting which suggests that fewer people are taking an interest in politics and participation.
Due to rebound of travel budgets, airlines are now competing for premium customers. Business Class customers are now the main source of income to airlines, and its even difficult for passengers to find business-class seats available. As Eric Shaver, a managing director for a consulting and training firm called Kensei Partners, says, " It has been harder to get up-graded to first class these days because so many frequent fliers are crowding the air." So he had seen evidence of this trend this year. He continues, "On flight back from London last year, there were five rows of empty seats.
Without anything to fall back on, rent can become missed which will lead to eviction. Losing a job can also happen without being ill. Many jobs are being outsourced, and there is a decline in manufacturing positions that were once easy to obtain. In 2009, when minimum wage was $7.25 an hour, an individual could work 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year and earn 15,080. That salary is less than the 17,170 which is what is needed for a family of three to reach the poverty line.
[224][225] North American air space was closed for several days after the attacks and air travel decreased upon its reopening, leading to a nearly 20% cutback in air travel capacity, and exacerbating financial problems in the struggling U.S. airline industry. [226] The September 11 attacks also led indirectly to the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,[227] as well as additional homeland security spending, totaling at least $5
There are many reasons why experts say that the U.S. is actually in a recession right now. A few reasons are that the GDP is slowing, Businesses are expanding more slowly, Employment is falling, and housing prices are down by 10 percent and the stock market crash and subsequent economic downturn in 2000. With this happen it was not a recession in technical terms because the GDP growth was negative in the Q3 2000, Q1 2001, and Q3 2001, not of which were consecutive. But anyone that lived through it knows that it felt like a recession during all that time. In face, the GDP growth did not reach 3 percent or over unit Q3 2003.
Most immigrants work at low skilled jobs, dropping national wage paid out to workers a considerable amount (Seattle 2006). Because of the low skilled immigrant pay, the wages of college graduates increased by 79%, and high school graduates and those with some college education was increased by an average of 59% (Seattle 2006). A huge surprise is that with the