General Dynamics closing airport facility - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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The closing, announced to the workers severalweekss ago, will take place by early July, said Roberyt Baugniet, a spokesman for the company’s General Dynamics Aviatio n Services subsidiary. Baugniet said the closintg was due to a declinein business-jeyt use. He said there are business-jet companies at the Minneapolixs airport that have had to scale back operations and let goof “If they reduce they don’t need servicing. That’s what we do. We’r a service business in that area,” he said.
Baugniegt said the company’s other service centers across the country will remain But even atthose centers, workersw have been let go and hours of remaining workers have been The 73 Twin Citie workers being let go are part of an broade r layoff of 1,200 General Dynamics workers that the Falla Church, Va.-based company .