150 jobs to be lost as Aviance quit Dublin

Aviance, the ground handling and maintenance provider have announced that they will be shutting their operation at Dublin airport effective end of March 2009. The company said that it had recently carried out a full review of it's operations and found that the "cost base and customer profile could not be sustained with the Dublin business model". Last week the company advised it's employees and SIPTU of it's intentions. Following discussions between the union and senior Aviance management it was decided that SIPTU would present a business plan in an effort to secure continuity of the company's presence ta Dublin Airport. This afternoon SIPTU’s Civil Aviation Sectoral Organiser Dermot O’Loughlin confirmed that, “Aviance has advised us that it is giving active consideration to our survival proposals and a decision will be made in the next 24 hours. We are hopeful that this episode will have a successful outcome for all the workers at the company”.