American Airlines’ announcement today it is to cut 7,000 jobs will not affect its Dublin operation, a company spokeswoman said.
She told ireland.comthe redundancies would mainly be sought in the US and that there were no further planned cutbacks to the company's European winter schedule.
The airline employs 250 staff at a call centre in Dublin. It has cut 15,000 jobs since last September, most of them in the United States.
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In a statement today, the world’s biggest airline said it "will reduce, between now and March 2003, an estimated 7,000 jobs in order to realign its workforce with the planned fall capacity reductions, fleet simplification and hub restructurings".
The company plans to cut capacity by 9 per cent as it seeks to regain profitability. It will ground its fleet of 74 small Fokker planes and make other changes to cut costs, the carrier announced on its website.
Chairman and chief executive Mr Donald J. Carty said: "We believe our future lies in continuing to operate as the world's leading network carrier.
"But we must get our costs down in order to compete and must focus on the products our customers want and are willing to pay for".
The job losses are part of measures aimed at saving the company more than $1.1 billion a year.
