AMR Cuts 1,200 More Jobs in $1.25 Billion Labor-Savings Plan
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American Airlines will cut 1,200 airport agent, baggage and cargo jobs and close an Arizona reservations center under a bankruptcy restructuring plan to trim annual labor spending by $1.25 billion.
The reductions announced today mean all of the carrier’s airport jobs in seven U.S. and two Canadian cities will be outsourced. AMR Corp.’s American detailed changes for the nonunion group 11 weeks after telling other employees it would do away with 13,000 of their jobs, freeze pensions and make work-rule and benefit changes.