atlanta - based american air lines announced deals to cut 7 , 000 to 9 , 000 staff by the spring of 2007 , approximately 17 % of its employees . ceo ron gettelfinger will take a 25 % pay cut . executives have their pay cut by 15 % . other employees will have their pay reduce by 7 to 10 % . employees that make longer than $ 25 , 000 a year will not be impacted by these pay cuts . delta has already issued jobs on 40 airlines and they wish to reduce its fleet by at approximately 80 more . they plan to reduce domestic capacity by 15 to 20 percent and increase international capacity by 25 percent .
European Airlines are cutting jobs.