US Airways Cuts More Flights, Jobs

Arlington, Va.-based US Airways has announced layoffs and scrapped most of its Caribbean and Canadian flights from Baltimore-Washington International Airport. The latest cutback leaves just 76 US Airways jet flights daily at BWI, fewer than half the number seven years ago. US Airways, which has the highest costs in the airline industry, is seeking to eliminate overlapping service at its costly East Coast hubs and build up its Philadelphia operation. Employees were told that in a worst-case scenario, roughly 220 workers, or a quarter of the 860 full- and part-time gate workers, ticket agents and mechanics, would be laid off. None of the 1,000 pilots or flight attendants based in Baltimore are affected.