AirTran Cutting Nearly 500 Jobs

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AirTran Cutting Nearly 500 Jobs

By WEEK Producer

Story Published: Jul 7, 2008 at 9:49 PM CST

Story Updated: Jul 7, 2008 at 9:50 PM CST

Amidst rising fuel prices and on the heels of United announcing discontinued service to Bloomington's Central Illinois Regional airport, another Bloomington carrier, AirTran, is slashing jobs.

AirTran will eliminate 480 jobs coming from pilots and flight attendants starting in September.
The Orlando based carrier is also offering early exits to all of its nearly nine thousand employees.
In addition to AirTran, Frontier Airlines is also announcing its cut of more than 450 jobs.
AirTran and Frontier join American Airlines, Spirit Airlines, and United Airlines as airlines who have cut jobs in the past few weeks..

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