Continental Air follows American on capacity cuts -- BUT NO LAYOFFS

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Continental Air follows American on capacity cuts
Tuesday August 20, 11:23 AM EDT


HOUSTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Continental Airlines (CAL
<http://money.excite.com/jsp/qt/full.jsp?time=0&symbol_search_text=CAL>
), the No. 5 U.S. airline, said on Tuesday it will cut back on flights
and park aircraft along with initiating new fees for low-fare customers
in an effort to turn the tide on financial losses since the Sept. 11
attacks.

The moves are expected to generate pretax gains of about $350 million
annually once fully implemented and $80 million for the rest of 2002,
the company said. Domestic capacity, measured in available seat miles,
will be down 17 percent in August 2003 from levels in August 2001.

The actions follow a decision last week by AMR Corp.'s (AMR
<http://money.excite.com/jsp/qt/full.jsp?time=0&symbol_search_text=AMR>
) American Airlines, the world's largest airline, to cut 7,000 jobs,
retire aircraft and also make schedule changes.

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