) warns it is overstaffed by about 8,000 flight attendants and might reduce its workforce through early retirements and voluntary leaves as the carrier looks to weather a hit to business from the COVID-19 pandemic.
U.S. carriers have warned that furloughs could take place in October, when the government payroll aid for the airline industry expires, but said they were hoping to avoid them. Last week, American Airlines said that avoiding furloughs will be difficult and it expects to have between 10% and 20% more workers than needed in July 2021.
BobBrinker And next year, AA will want to increase the number of VISAs so they can outsource to hire these same flight attendant slots with foreigners at starting wages or less.
It's called 'business.' Make the hard decisions and don't ask for a bailout!
And they want to start flying fully packed flights. Terrible airline.
Redundancy undoubtedly!
American Airlines has needed to retire their nasty old battle-axes they call flight attendants for a very long long time
It’s like they’ve mismanaged every bailout they’ve been given
Airlines have to trim their size. They should down size to 30% of what they were before the Pandemic. Bailout money, borrowed money will not last very long. AmericanAirlines Airlines
Aren't they the ones who just announced they were ignoring social distancing and dangerously overstuffing their planes? Maybe if they ran more flights with fewer passengers per flight, they wouldn't be overstaffed and they wouldn't kill their customers.
This means more poorly trained employees on the cheap.
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