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American Airlines Begins Layoffs in Corporate Travel Department
American Airlines’ restructuring of its global product sales staff will entail the departure of a few seasoned senior leaders, Skift has uncovered. The reorganization impacts its U.S operations and features a range of layoffs. Other global areas are established to comply with, with the cuts coming just weeks forward of its go to change extra of its airfares to direct retail channels, which includes its personal website. “… I want to permit you know that we are heading to be a extra streamlined income workforce heading ahead, undertaking significantly more targeted and deliberate get the job done in parts wherever prospects require us, and operating with greater performance and success,”…
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Google Flights Could Shift Strategy After Heavy Layoffs
Especially heavy layoffs at Google Flights, including senior managers and engineers who joined Google with the ITA Software acquisition in 2011, could signal strategy shifts in the company’s multifaceted airline business, Skift has learned. Any modifications to Google’s airline strategy could potentially have implications for airline partners, global distribution systems Sabre and Amadeus, metasearch rivals such as Kayak and Skyscanner, as well as travelers. Google delivered its largest layoffs ever — about 12,000 employees, or around 6 percent of its full-time workforce — 10 days ago, and it is believed that firings at Google Flights, which had 100 or more employees on its engineering team alone, reached 10-12 percent. The…