United Airlines to close 23 ticket offices

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I always enjoyed walking through a city and finding a row of various
airlines' ticket offices to visit. This was always a pleasurable experience
breaking the boredom of being dragged to some Godforsaken event as a kid.

Walter
DCA

CHICAGO, June 5 (Reuters) - UAL Corp.'s (UAL) United Airlines, still losing
money since the Sept. 11 attacks, said on Wednesday it will close 23 more
ticket offices, located in and west of Denver, to cut costs.

"It's just part of our overall effort to reduce expenses," said United
spokesman Joe Hopkins. The No. 2 U.S. carrier behind AMR Corp.'s American
Airlines, has shut 32 offices across the country since Sept. 11, when demand
for travel plunged.

Some of the latest closures are in cities where United has multiple ticket
offices. These include Portland, Oregon; Las Vegas; Los Angeles, San Diego
and Sacramento, California; Denver; Seattle; and Honolulu.

Hopkins said he does not know how many employees will be affected by the
closures. The airline laid off about 20,000 of its 100,000 workers after
Sept. 11 as it cut back available seats by about 20 percent.

UAL posted a record loss of $2.1 billion for 2001 and a loss of $510 million
for the first quarter.


©2002 Reuters Limited.

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