British Airways has announced it is to reduce the number of its managers by nearly 600 by March 2008.
In a restructuring, the number of senior managers will be reduced by half, from 414 to 207. There will also be a 30% reduction in the number of middle managers, from 1,301 to 911.
The reductions, totalling 597, will be made by March 2008, the month that BA moves into Heathrow's new Terminal Five.
Earlier this week, the airline's chief executive Willie Walsh said the airline would not tolerate further strikes.
He said: ‘A very clear message has been given internally within BA that that sort of action cannot and will not be tolerated going forward.’
Mr Walsh took up the position of CEO in October. In August about 700 flights were grounded when BA ground staff went on strike in sympathy with sacked workers at the company's catering firm Gate Gourmet.
Mr Walsh also said the airline, which launched its first direct flights to Bangalore last month, planned to expand further in India and launch routes to one or two more cities in the region.
He said India and China remained BA's most significant long-haul growth markets.
