Chicago Tribune: More United/Continental jobs flowing to Chicago
United Airlines' merger with Continental Airlines is bringing 1,300 additional workers to Chicago by the end of 2012.
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"Some are coming from Houston, some from San Francisco, some from other locations around our system," [Jeff] Smisek said. "They're principally operations-related jobs, technology jobs. These are good jobs. … The move was facilitated by the merger because we're headquartered here. But many of these jobs, certainly, for example the technology jobs, could be located anywhere, and we chose Chicago."
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Incentives did not play a role, however, in bringing the additional 1,300 jobs to Chicago, Smisek said Friday.
"This is a city United Airlines believes in," he said.
It's really too bad Houston couldn't have made a stronger pitch for those jobs, but perhaps our mayor was too busy basking in her green-celebrity status for that. Rahm Emanuel, on the other hand....
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 06/20/11 09:43 PM | Print |
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