Cargo-handler Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) will lay off 161 employees at the American Airlines freight facility at Philadelphia International Airport in June because the airline has not renewed its contract. But Amerian says the new contractor is likely to hire much of the current workforce.
WFS, which is based in France, posted a notice with the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry that it would lay off the Cargo City employees on June 16. Valerie Marchand Battard, a spokeswoman for WFS at its Paris headquarters, said the company still operates two other facilities in the Philadelphia area, “so we are not pulling out of the market.”
