Delta Ups Number of Employees To Be Let Go Under Voluntary Program
Delta Air Lines said on March 18 that it would offer voluntary severance payouts to roughly 30,000 employees. Executives said then that the airline's goal was to cut 2,000 frontline, administrative and management jobs through the severance program, attrition and other initiatives.
The company said it would accept more job cuts, if more than 2,000 employees took voluntary severance.
Today the airline said that roughly 4,000 people took the airline up on its offer, and Delta will accept all the volunteers. The employees are from the mainline airline and Delta's information technology subsidiary. Most will leave the company in the fall.