American Air to Cut Management, Staff 30% Amid Travel Slump
- Airline also plans to soon detail leadership team reshuffling
- Reductions are adjustments toward becoming a smaller carrier
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American Airlines Group Inc. will cut 30% of its management and support staff, or about 5,100 jobs, as it continues to shrink operations in response to the dramatic decline in travel brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
The carrier also plans to detail a revamped officer team as the company shrinks “for the foreseeable future,” Elise Eberwein, American’s executive vice president of people and global engagement, said in a letter to employees late Wednesday. The airline said it hopes enough management and administrative staff will volunteer to leave under a new program available through June 10 to avoid forced layoffs.