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Southwest Airways is slashing 15% of its company workforce, its first main layoffs in 53 years

WashingtonSouthwest Airways is slashing 15% of its company workforce, its first main layoffs in 53 years

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By ALEX VEIGA, AP Enterprise Author

Revealed: February 18, 2025, 7:38am

FILE – A Southwest Airways airplane strikes to depart from Love Area in Dallas, July 25, 2024. (AP Photograph/LM Otero, File)

Southwest Airways is eliminating 1,750 jobs, or 15% of its company workforce, within the first main layoffs within the firm’s 53-year historical past.

The Dallas-based airline mentioned Monday that the job cuts can be targeted virtually fully on “corporate overhead and leadership positions,” together with senior management and administrators. Eleven senior management positions, representing 15% of the corporate’s senior administration committee, are being eradicated.

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