A city airport will lose a hub carrier. What should HR do with the workforce plan?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
When a hub carrier walks, parking and ops do not drop the same week—the slide is forecastable. Do not wait for empty lots, and do not fire everyone on the press release. Tie a reduction-and-redeploy plan to the passenger curve now.
Full Explanation
Leading demand indicators—carrier exits, published schedules, passenger forecasts—should trigger workforce-plan revisions before actual volume hits the trough. Pre-building reduction and redeployment paths for parking, concessions liaison, and operations lets HR sequence attrition, bumping, and retraining against a forecast rather than a surprise. Waiting for realized counts or executing an untargeted abolition both miss the planning window.