British Airways is creating 30 new technology jobs at its Newcastle IT centre, despite the company’s overall strategy to reduce staff numbers.
The airline is to cut senior manager numbers by 50 per cent and managerial posts by 35 per cent over a two-year period. But improved use of technology is crucial to the company’s financial turnaround, which saw profits rise 25 per cent in the past year (Computing, 25 May).
‘This is a vote of confidence in IT – it is key to transforming and simplifying our business,’ said the company’s chief information officer Paul Coby.
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