Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Oddly enough, this may not be rumor after all. Apparently all of PCL's ground station employees got layoff letters. That came out of MEM.
Pinnacle is getting out of the ground handling business. They are shutting down PinnPro. It, like colgan and our owned 900's. have been losing money since the day they were created. They underbid everyone to get control of some of the ground stations. They made nearly every employee part time so they had no benefits. In the end it still failed.
“We said when we started the restructuring process that we would have to make tough decisions for our business to emerge from Chapter 11 stronger and profitable,” company spokesperson Joe Williams said. “We are discontinuing unprofitable units as part of the reorganization plan and refocusing on our core business of flying.”