In Brief
WASHINGTON — Delta flights are departing and a ground stop has been lifted after a systems outage Sunday night led to departure delays and cancellations.
In a statement posted on the Atlanta-based airline’s website at 11:45 p.m., CEO Ed Bastian apologized to customers who were impacted by this “frustrating situation.”
Delta says about 150 flights have been canceled, with more expected.
Bastian says this type of disruption “is not acceptable to the Delta family who prides itself on reliability and customer service.”
Delta says a waiver has been issued for travel scheduled on Sunday and today, for rebooking by Friday.
In August, Delta suffered a computer breakdown after a power outage in its operations center. The airline canceled more than 2,000 flights over three days.
[naviga:h3]GM Canada moves 625 jobs to Mexico[/naviga:h3]
LONDON, Ontario — General Motors Canada is cutting 625 jobs at its assembly plant near London, Ontario, and moving those jobs to Mexico, where labor is cheaper, GM Canada’s union spokesman said Friday.
Unifor Local 88 spokesman Mike Van Boekel said the layoffs will take effect in July at the CAMI Assembly plant in Ingersoll, which currently employs 2,800 Unifor workers.
The Ingersoll plant builds the Chevrolet Equinox and the GMC Terrain. The company recently announced it was shifting production of the GMC Terrain to Mexico.
GM said the cuts Friday related to the changeover of production from older model Equinoxes to the next-generation Equinox.
