PSA to lay off 157 at Dayton International as HQ move picks up speed

PSA Airlines, 3400 Terminal Drive, Dayton.  MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF

PSA Airlines, 3400 Terminal Drive, Dayton. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF

Waves of layoffs from what was once the only airline based in Ohio are set to begin.

PSA Airlines, which earlier this year announced that it was moving its corporate headquarters from Dayton to Charlotte, N.C., is laying off 157 employees in Dayton.

The employees affected work at 3400 Terminal Drive, near Dayton International Airport, a new letter from the company to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services said.

The notice is a reminder of PSA’s January announcement that its headquarters would move to Charlotte Douglas International Airport, where many PSA employees had been already working.

PSA’s Charlotte headquarters is expected to open in January 2026 and will have about 400 PSA workers.

“Those employees who do not accept PSA’s relocation offer will be permanently laid off in phases beginning on October 29, 2025,” the company said in its recent letter to Ohio.

Additional layoffs are anticipated to occur on Dec. 29, 2025, and Jan. 29, Feb. 10, Feb. 18, April 29, and Nov. 29, 2026, and April 29, 2027.

“We anticipate approximately 157 employees will be affected,” the company said in its letter.

Affected employees include dispatchers, crew schedulers, human resources staff, a director of maintenance, a director of flight operations, at least seven maintenance controllers, safety specialists and many others.

The unsigned letter to the state is dated Aug. 29.

“We chose to relocate PSA’s headquarters to Charlotte for several important reasons, including that Charlotte is where most of our daily departures occur and almost all our training is based,” Dion Flannery, president and CEO of PSA, said in January. “Charlotte is a vibrant community and home to the world’s seventh-busiest airport.”

PSA’s MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) facility will remain in Dayton, continuing to employ hundreds of people and its flight service will not be disrupted, the Dayton Development Coalition said in January.

PSA Airlines, a subsidiary of American Airlines Group, operates a fleet of regional jet aircraft. The company says it has some 5,000 employees with 750 daily flights to over 100 destinations.

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