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[BLOCKQUOTE]----------------[BR]On 1/10/2003 11:46:50 PM MiAAmi wrote: [BR][BR]If you keep distancing yourselves from AA by continuing to list yourselves as TWA what do you expect? [BR][BR]----------------[/BLOCKQUOTE]Care to explain just who lists us as TWA in the following news item?[BR][BR][BR][BIG class=pr][FONT size=2]Dow Jones Business News[/FONT][/BIG][BR][SPAN class=t][STRONG][FONT size=3]AMR to Cut 836 Flight Attendants Vs Planned 1,100 Cuts[/FONT][/STRONG][/SPAN][BR][SPAN class=tt]Friday January 10, 5:53 pm ET[/SPAN] [BR][BR][BR]
[DIV class=ar]FORT WORTH, Texas. -- AMR Corp.'s American Airlines unit plans to cut 836 flight attendant jobs at the end of the month, or nearly 4% of its total flight attendants, less than the airline projected in December.[BR][BR]Last month, the world's largest carrier said it would reduce its flight attendant ranks by 1,100 through offering voluntary options such as job-sharing and "overage leaves." [BR][BR]American said then that the window for the flight attendants to take the options would run from Dec. 11 through Jan. 7, after which it would have a clearer idea how many layoffs would occur. [BR][BR][STRONG]Company spokesman Todd Burke [/STRONG]told Dow Jones Newswires Friday that the company will furlough 343 flight attendants, [STRONG]all in its St. Louis TWA operations[/STRONG], while another 493 attendants throughout the system will take voluntary furloughs. [BR][BR]Mr. Burke said the company identified the 1,100 potential layoffs in December, shortly after it unveiled plans to reduce North American capacity by 3.3% by March. [BR][BR]However, an agreement with the Association of Professional Flight Attendants put a one-time cap of 400 on furloughs. American hoped to reach the total of 1, 100 cuts through voluntary furloughs, Mr. Burke said, as it can't implement furloughs above the 400-position cap, under its union contract. [BR][BR]AN APFA spokesman wasn't immediately available for comment. [BR][BR][STRONG]The furloughs will occur in American's TWA operations, Mr. Burke said[/STRONG], because those employees have the least seniority under the merger agreement with TWA. He said about 2,000 former TWA flight attendants are based in St. Louis. [BR][BR]Last week, a 3% raise for American's flight attendants went into effect, about a month after the company requested the union forgo pay raises this year. [BR][BR]In an effort to avoid the fates of bankrupt fellow carriers UAL Corp. (NYSE:[A href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ual&d=t"]UAL[/A] - [A href="http://biz.yahoo.com/n/u/ual.html"]News[/A]) and US Airways Group Inc. (UAWGQ), American froze pay last month for managers and other nonunion members and asked union employees to skip contractual pay raises to help stem huge losses. [BR][BR]American has said forgoing all scheduled pay increases for 2003 would save the airline $130 million. The company had losses totaling $2.98 billion, or $19.19 a share, for the first nine months of 2002. [BR][BR]New York Stock Exchange-listed shares of American closed Friday at $6.52, down 27 cents, or 4%, on composite volume of 1.7 million shares. Average daily volume is 2.7 million shares. The stock hit a 52-week high of $29.20 on March 4 and a 52-week low of $3.01 on Oct. 10. [BR][BR]-Susan Willetts; Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-5400 [BR][BR][A href="http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030110/1753000575_1.html"]http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030110/1753000575_1.html[/A][/DIV]