An airport food service company that runs food and beverage operations at American Airlines’ Admirals Clubs and Flagship Lounges at DFW International Airport is laying off 334 workers.
HMS Host will be ending its operations, resulting in layoff notifications for the workers from Jan. 14 to Jan. 28, according to a WARN letter filed with the Texas Workforce Commission. As of Jan. 15, the airport is working with a new company, Compass, a food service company.
According to American, Compass offered all frontline team members a job and management was offered interviews.
“We regularly evaluate our partnerships to ensure they offer the best value to our customers and our airline,” said Caroline Barksdale, spokeswoman for American Airlines. “As part of that process, American has elected to wind down our partnership with HMS Host. We recently transitioned support of the food and beverage in our Admirals Club lounges at DFW to Compass.”
Last week, 44 workers at Amazon’s 500,000-square-foot Dallas facility and 44 employees at the 600,000-square-foot Coppell facility were reported to be laid off on March 5.