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Delta to Announce Job Cuts
Delta Air Lines will announce job cuts and a reduction in its winter flight schedule on Wednesday, a Delta spokeswoman said.
The Atlanta-based airline, which has 82,000 employees, plans to trim its work force with voluntary leaves, early retirement incentives and furloughs, spokeswoman Cindi Kurczewski said Tuesday.
Delta would not say how many cuts were being considered.
Other U.S. airlines have announced about 80,000 job cuts since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, with AMR, parent of American Airlines, and UAL, parent of United Airlines, each cutting 20,000 jobs.
Delta and Dallas-based Southwest Airlines are the only major airlines that have not announced job cuts.
Delta, the largest employer in metro Atlanta with 32,000 workers, has sizable worker bases at its other hubs ¡ª Cincinnati, Dallas-Fort Worth and Salt Lake City. The airline also has extensive operations in Orlando, Fla., New York and Los Angeles.
Company spokesman Tom Donahue said Delta has lost about $1 billion since the terrorist attacks. The airline will get about $600 million from the $5 billion cash relief approved by Congress last week, Donahue said.
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