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Airlines Cut Tens of Thousands of Jobs
By Erik Even | Dated: 04-21-2009
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics reports that airlines lost 6.6% of jobs since February, 2008. It’s the eighth straight year of US airline job loss.Only Southwest Airlines and JetBlue Airlines increased their overall workforce since February 2008.
Delta/Northwest now employs 73,100, down 4,800 from last year. American lost 3,300; and United lost 6,600.
ATA Airlines, which went out of business entirely in 2008, laid off 2,189.
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