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Delta cutting staff, trimming flights
About 2,000 workers at Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines are taking early
retirement offers, allowing the company to reduce its staff while it
also announced more flight cuts.
Delta offered early retirement packages in April, including a one-time
medical account offer to cover health care in retirement. About 14,000
Delta employees across the United States were eligible. Delta has more
than 80,000 employees worldwide, including about 25,000 in Georgia.
The move was part of Delta's efforts to fold in employees from Northwest
Airlines into its own work force. Delta acquired Northwest in 2008, but
after extended challenges in labor representation elections, it is
finally completing the combination of work forces this year.
Northwest employees had their own subsidized retiree medical program,
but they will be shifted over to the Delta's system of pay and benefits.
Delta president Ed Bastian said during a presentation at an investor
conference Thursday that about 2,000 employees signed up for the early
retirement program. The company's goal is to not "backfill" those
positions, but instead to reduce its headcount, he said. That will save
the company more than $60,000 per person, according to Bastian.
The early retirees will leave at various times, but most are expected to
leave the company sometime after the summer travel season.
Last year, Delta laid off about 200 administrative employees after
offering buyouts and early retirement that more than 2,000 employees
accepted, as the company reduced costs to adjust to the pressures of
high fuel prices.
This year, Delta said it did not have a target for how many employees it
wanted to take early retirement and that the program was instead
tailored for the circumstances surrounding the integration of Northwest
employees.
Meanwhile, Delta said it plans to further cut back international
flights, just a day after celebrating the opening of Atlanta's new
international terminal with additional gates for growth.
Delta will cut another 5 percent of trans-Atlantic flight capacity due
to the weakened euro and the risk of fuel price spikes, according to
Bastian. The airline will also cut another 1 to 2 percent of flight
capacity in the Pacific region, he said. In total, Delta will cut its
flight capacity this year by 3 to 4 percent, deeper than the 2 to 3
percent cuts it previously planned.
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