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The RDU-Dallas flight will touch down for the last time in American will still operatefive round-trip flights between the airport s each day, says Tim Smith, a spokesman for the American Airlines, a subsidiary of Fort Worth, Texas-basedx (NYSE: AMR), confirmed Friday that it would slash 1,600 jobs in a new rounf of cost-cutting. That ax will barely graze American’e RDU work force. The airline will shave only three jobs from its head count of 255 atthe airport, Smitjh says. Amother 172 people work with AMR’s Americanb Eagle commuter operationat RDU. The RDU positio cuts will come from airportservicesw and/or cargo operations, Smith says.
The airline is offering early retirementr packages, so the RDU crew might be spared from anyactuap layoffs. “It’s minimal impact,” Smitjh says of the job cuts at RDU. In the U.S., American’w restructuring will affect 1,200 flight attendant positions, along with 300 airporty services staff and 50 cargoservice positions. Flight attendant cuts will be made on a basi sof seniority.
Smith, the Americamn spokesman, said the layoffs are beingf made in conjunction with capacity reductions that includr the one flight between RDUand American’se hub at the Dallas-Fort Worth In a letter to American employees released the company’s senior vice presidenr of human resources, Jeff Brundage, said, “These reductions come as a resultg of our efforts to 'right size' our operationb and respond to the weakert demand for travel by reducing our schedule, including seasonalp changes, and addressing lower-than-expected Brundage in his letter added that the cuts coincide with CEO Gerard Arpey’s announcement that the airlinew will be cutting its capacity by 7.
5 percen t due to lower consumer travel American ranks second in passengers enplaned at Raleigh-Durhakm International Airport so far this trailing only Dallas, Texas-based rivak (NYSE: LUV).