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Comair Announces Job Cuts
CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) -- Regional airline Comair has told employees
that it expects to cut about one-fifth of its pilots and flight
attendant jobs beginning this fall.
The cuts are part of the carrier's plan to ground 14 of its
50-seat jets by the end of the year.
The Delta Air Lines Inc. subsidiary sent the memo to employees
this week. Comair spokeswoman Kate Marx says the Erlanger,
Ky.-based airline expects to cut about 300 pilot and 220 flight
attendant positions.
Marx says the airline has steadily reduced non-crew staff since
the beginning of the year. She says the pilot and flight attendant
staffing now has to be adjusted with the grounding of the planes.
Comair announced in January that it would reduce its fleet by up
to 14 this year and fly fewer hours as part of Delta's cost-cutting
plans.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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