Report: U.S. Airways faces liquidation The New York Times reported Thursday that U.S. Airways Group Inc.'s 28,00= 0 workers must agree to $800 million in wage and benefit cuts within 30 d= ays or the airline may go out of business. = U.S. Airways chairman David Bronner told Retirement Systems of Alabama, t= hat state's public employee pension fund, that he would seek a Chapter 7 = liquidation of the business without additional employee concessions. Bron= ner is chief executive officer of that pension fund, which is a controlli= ng shareholder in Arlington, Va.-based U.S. Airways. = The airline's employees have already been asked to accept two previous cu= ts in wages and benefits. Bronner said without concessions, the pension f= und would not invest any more money into the airline, according to the Ti= mes report. The pension fund invested $240 million to fund that airline's= emergence from bankruptcy a year ago. = U.S. Airways lost $143 million in the first half of 2004. It provides air= carrier service at Milwaukee's General Mitchell International Airport th= rough its regional US Airways Express service. = =A9 2004 American City Business Journals Inc. Roger EWROPS