Two questions about airport offices and staff.
If I close an airport office, will the staff show up on the staff page as having too many employees? Will they show up immediately?
If I open another airport office and haven’t fired the old airport staff, will those unused staff be used to fill the work at the new airport office?
1. It isn't really about closing an office. The amount of passengers/flights you have arriving and departing an airport determines how many staff you have there. So, if you remove all the flights, then the staff that's not being used will show up on the staff page as "redundant staff".
2. Yes. Even if the offices are on the other side of the planet.. they will be shifted and reused.
There's not many situations where you want to fire staff. Switching offices isn't one of them. The employees will transfer, and you won't even have to pay their moving expenses.
Okay great. So I guess it’s better to close an office before opening another, assuming you’re going to close and open a new one.
Hi,
allow me to rephrase what Caithes said... you can open a hundred offices. It won't cost you one single dollar as long as you don't fly to that airport.
And if you stop flying to that ariport, it makes no difference whether you close that office or not. If you stop flying to an airport, you will have redundant staff. If you close that office, you will still be paying salaries. But if you add flights to other airports, you will need more staff there.
So either you fire them and pay severance payments, or you wait until these staff members automatically move to another airport where you need (more) staff.
Jan
In other words, as long as you are growing you do not have a problem. You only have a staff problem if your airline is shrinking. And then your problems can quickly multiply.