Japan Airlines To Trial A Year After Bankruptcy
Case filed with the Tokyo District Court, claims management JAL did not do enough to make redundancies. the company's reorganization plan approved by the Court requires cutting about 16,000 jobs.
The candidates and their supporters marched to the court to carry the banner said. "Japan Airlines has withdrawn for the licensing of new"
"The company has laid off people, especially those who have much time ensuring the safety of flight operations," the plaintiffs told the local media, according to Kyodo News.
"Through the hearings, we want to question the company, which decreases the reliability and lack of concern for the good of society."
The cause is believed to be one of the largest of its kind in the applicants 'lawyer'.
"I'm very sorry," people made redundant President Kazuo Inamori told a news conference. "JAL made a heartbreaking decision, because you can not pull back the rescue plan, approved by creditors and the court."
He added: "It would be good for the future recovery of breaking faith with its creditors."
The airline has published a total of 165 pilots and cabin crew late last year.
JAL has filed for bankruptcy in January 2010, $ 26 million due to one of the greatest failures in Japan increasingly companies, but continued to fly as it passes through a process of rehabilitation under court protection.
He has since left the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Tokyo Tribunal to submit a rehabilitation plan, including exemptions worth over 6.3 billion U.S. dollars and a loss of about 16,000 jobs.
The case is just the latest challenge for the airline to face down, as the charismatic president of the board appointed to reduce costs and weighs more resources to start the company.
Inamori, founder of the prestigious technology company Kyocera, said in an interview published Wednesday that the reform JAL was the only "four or five is gone."
Although there is no experience in aviation business, he was asked by the government to contribute to the reform of JAL and once lamented the lack of business sense among employees of the company, complaining that they were unfit to drive, even a grocery store.
To honor of the bankruptcy filing, Inamori, visited maintenance workers JAL to Tokyo Haneda Airport, and stated that staff continued to work despite concerns for the morale in the midst of layoffs.
He suggested delaying the JAL plane to list its shares on the stock market again in December this year, while a cautious attitude about the possibility of joining its rival All Nippon Airways launching services low cost.
"JAL is planning to focus on quality (and services)," Inamori said. 'E' in competition with the air quality rather than price. "
In April and November 2010, JAL reported a group operating profit of 146 billion yen (1.7 billion dollars), President Masaru Onishi.
The company also announced Wednesday it would return to his former company "red-crown crane" logo, adopted in 1959, to symbolize his efforts to restart.