AHI offering severance packages

COLUMBUS, Miss – Airbus Helicopters Inc., citing a downturn in sales, is offering voluntary severance packages to its Golden Triangle workers. Airbus employs about 250 people at its plant at the Golden Triangle Industrial Park in Lowndes County, where it assembles Army UH-71A Lakota and commercial AS350 AStar helicopters. There are no plans to implement layoffs. The last day for employees to volunteer to leave the company is Dec. 31. (Source: Clarion Ledger, Seattle Post-Intelligencer 11/20/14)