Source: Japan Today Author: 10/07/2009
Subject Concerned: Aircrew Airlines Human Resource
Japan Airlines Corp (JAL), currently restructuring under state supervision, will hire only 32 new flight attendants for fiscal 2010, just one-third of the around 100 people it had originally planned to employ, sources familiar with the matter said on Oct. 6.
JAL will also delay hiring the new flight attendants on a contract-basis for about six months until next autumn, the sources said.
JAL also slashed the number of administrative staff and pilot trainees it will hire for next spring and plans to further cut hiring of flight attendants for fiscal 2011.
Meanwhile, rival All Nippon Airways Co (ANA) will hire 257 flight attendants for fiscal 2010, up nearly 28% from a year earlier as it prepares for an expansion of slots at Narita and Haneda airports next year.