Posted on 08/01/2011 2:10:02 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
D@mn those ATMs!
Delta cutting services and 2,000 jobs
Posted: August 1st, 2011 10:28 AM CDT
DAVID SHAFFER; STAFF WRITER, STAR TRIBUNE (Mpls.-St. Paul) Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Delta Air Lines said Wednesday that 2,000 employees will take voluntary buyouts beginning in September as the carrier works to boost revenue and bring down expenses in the face of high fuel prices.
The airline, Minnesota’s dominant carrier, also said it plans to use fare increases and other means to recover fuel cost increases and that it will reduce overall capacity in the last three months of 2011 by 4 to 5 percent compared with a year earlier — a bigger cutback than previously announced....
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