More work at American Airline's maintenance base in Tulsa means the company needs more workers.
American will hire more than 400 new employees in the coming months to deal with an increased workload, including scheduled maintenance work on its fleet of Boeing 787s that will start coming in later this year.
"This is the first time in more than a decade that we've hired this many team members simultaneously, which underscores our long-term commitment to Tulsa," said Managing Director of Base Maintenance Erik Olund in a news release. "The Tulsa team continues to do great work by ensuring the safe operation of our fleet, and we look forward to bringing more of our aircraft to the base."
Most of the new workers will be licensed mechanics.
"For 73 years, American has operated the largest commercial aviation maintenance base in the world here in Tulsa," said Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum in a news release. "This announcement not only reaffirms American's continuing commitment to Tulsa, but also the great benefit our community receives from investments like this. I'm grateful to the hard-working team at American for their partnership and am excited to see the impact of this work."
More than 5,200 people currently work at the base, which includes 22 buildings on the main base and 3.3 million square feet of hangar and shop space sitting on 330 acres.