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SYDNEY - The Qantas Group said today it would cut 1,500 jobs worldwide in response to the sustained high oil prices and changing economic conditions.
Qantas CEO, Geoff Dixon, said that in addition to the job cuts, Qantas would not implement its budgeted growth in flying in the 2008/09 financial year and would cancel plans to hire a further 1,200 people for that growth.
Dixon said every effort would be made to achieve the job cuts through voluntary redundancy, early retirements, leave without pay, an accelerated leave programme and converting positions from full-time to part time.
He said the aviation industry was facing a major crisis throughout the world and Qantas needed to act decisively to ensure its future.
The airline will also close its long-running call centres in Tucson, Arizona and London, and concentrate all its call centre activity in Australia and New Zealand; suspend Jetstar's recruitment program until the end of the year; and close Jetstar's cabin crew and pilot base in Adelaide by the end of August
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