It is clear that the airline "Star Flyer", which is undergoing restructuring, has entered the final adjustment by receiving a subsidy of 1 billion yen from Kitakyushu City and sending employees to the city for the purpose of maintaining employment. became.
"Star Flyer", which is headquartered in Kitakyushu City, plans to increase its capital by 11 billion yen next month in the form of receiving investment from investment funds and local companies as part of its management restructuring. I have also requested support from.
According to the people concerned, Kitakyushu City has decided to support Star Flyer with 1 billion yen as a subsidy, and will submit a supplementary budget plan that includes this cost to the regular assembly scheduled to open this month.
In addition, the city plans to accept more than a dozen Star Flyer employees on a secondment basis in order to maintain employment, and is expected to hire them as staff from April at the earliest.
This is the first time that Kitakyushu City has directly provided financial support to Star Flyer for the purpose of business restructuring.
As a local government, it is inevitable to support airlines that have Haneda routes as the core of the utilization of Kitakyushu Airport, and Star Flyer will have an even greater responsibility to realize management restructuring at an early stage.