American Airlines Says to Cut Management and Support Staff by 30 Percent

A member of a ground crew walks past American Airlines planes parked at the gate during the CCP virus outbreak at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, on April 5, 2020.Joshua Roberts/Reuters

American Airlines Group must reduce its management and support staff by about 30 percent and may have to cut frontline employees as it downsizes due to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus outbreak, showed a letter to employees made public on May 27.

All major U.S. airlines have said they will need to shrink in the fall, once U.S. government payroll aid that bans involuntary job cuts expires on Sept. 30.