Frontier Airlines Inc. notified the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development today that the company will eliminate 446 more jobs in Milwaukee this spring.
Frontier's parent company, Indianapolis-based Republic Airways Holdings Inc., said the layoffs at General Mitchell International Airport will take effect between April 15 and April 30.
About 230 of the 446 are flight crew members who will be reassigned to bases outside of Milwaukee.
The Department of Workforce Development will partner with the Milwaukee HIRE Center to provide Rapid Response Services for the employees whose jobs will be lost.
Frontier Airlines announced last week that it will eliminate flights from Milwaukee to six destinations: Newark, N.J. as of April 1 and Dallas/Fort Worth, Grand Rapids, Kansas City, Philadelphia and Phoenix, as of April 16.
As a result of those schedule changes, daily departures out of Milwaukee will be reduced from 32 to 18.
"This reduction in service is another step in our continued effort to ensure that Frontier is a competitive and sustainably profitable airline," Frontier Airlines spokeswoman Lindsey (Purves) Carpenter said.
Frontier Airlines has been struggling for months to compete in Milwaukee with other airlines, particularly AirTran and Southwest.
In November Republic Airways announced plans to begin considering the sale of Frontier Airlines business. Republic acquired Denver-based Frontier out of bankruptcy protection in 2009 and absorbed the former Oak Creek-based Midwest Airlines under the Frontier brand.
Also, in 2009, Republic announced plans to "save" 800 jobs in Milwaukee and move 800 new jobs to the region by the end of that year. But the company's, and Frontier Airlines', presence has been shrinking in Milwaukee of late.
In September, Frontier said it would eliminate 213 jobs at Mitchell International and that it would cut nearly a third of its 67 flights from Milwaukee, discontinuing flights from Milwaukee to six cities: Green Bay; Madison; Dayton and Cleveland, Ohio; Des Moines, Iowa; and Minneapolis.
Frontier Airlines to cut 446 more jobs in Milwaukee
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