Layoffs for Jet Aviation mean new service center for Gulfstream

General Dynamics Corps, owner of both Gulfstream Aerospace and Jet Aviation, is discontinuing its Jet Aviation finishing center in St. Louis and moving a Gulfstream service center into the spot Jet Aviation now occupies at the St. Louis Downtown Airport in Cahokia, according to a report published in the Belleville News-Democrat.

The layoffs will be implemented in several phases through the first quarter of 2018. Some 330 Jet Aviation employees — a little more than half the company’s current workforce in St. Louis – are expected to lose their jobs.

Gulfstream will operate an airplane maintenance, repair and overhaul service at the Cahokia airport, and some Jet Aviation employees will be transferring to Gulfstream to continue this line of work, company officials said.

The Cahokia site will be Gulfstream’s ninth U.S. service center.