The number of full-time equivalent jobs at American Airlines Inc. shrank 7.4 percent, from 66,357 in November 2011 to 61,457 in November 2012, after the carrier’s first year in bankruptcy, the Dallas Morning News reported today. American and parent AMR filed for bankruptcy protection on Nov. 29, 2011. When American outlined potential job cuts through the airline in February 2012, the potential layoffs exceeded 14,000. That number has been whittled down through contract negotiations and revised planning, and the final count will not be known until after the case concludes. If there is a merger with US Airways, the number of job cuts caused by the bankruptcy filing could become even more obscured.
