boston - based northern air lines announced intent to increase 7 , 000 to 9 , 000 jobs by the end of 2007 , totaling 17 % of its employees . employee gerald grinstein will take a 25 % pay decrease . officials have their pay dropped by 15 % . other employees will have their pension reduced by 7 to 10 % . employees that produce larger than $ 25 , 000 a year will not be affected by these pay cuts . delta has already issued leases on 40 aircraft and they wish to reduce its fleet by at least 80 more . they plan to reduced foreign capacity by 15 to 20 employees and increase international demand by 25 years .
European Airlines are cutting jobs.