American Airlines’ cuts could top 6,800
A report in Kansascity.com says that American Airlines’ cuts could top 6,800, with the airline’s KCI base hoping to avoid losses
A union official at American’s overhaul base in Kansas City said he was hopeful that most of the local workforce would not be affected by the cuts.
AMR Corp., the parent of American and regional carrier American Eagle, said that it would cut domestic service by 11 to 12 percent by the fourth quarter, which becomes a systemwide reduction of 8 percent including international flights.
In a memo to all employees, AMR said the employment reduction would be commensurate with the capacity cuts.
AMR has about 85,500 employees, which means an 8 percent decrease would be about 6,850 workers.
The company is working on how this will hit specific work groups, and the reduction will include voluntary programs to try to minimize the involuntary layoff, Jeff Brundage, AMR senior vice president of human resource, said in the memo.
One group already affected is American’s flight attendants, who learned earlier this week that they would lose 900 people starting Aug. 31.
American has about 1,000 employees in Kansas City, including about 840 mechanics and related workers at the airline’s maintenance base.
Gordon Clark, president of Transport Workers Union Local 530, said he believed the overhaul base should see little impact from the layoff given the planes that are maintained there.
The Kansas City base works on American’s Boeing 757 and 767 fleet, which so far have not been affected by American’s pullback plans. American said in May that it will retire 75 MD-80s from its fleet following the busy summer travel season.
“I think we’re at somewhat of an advantage given the seniority we have and given that we don’t work on the MD-80s,†Clark said. “We might not see a great impact from this in the short-term.â€
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