Airline announces 1,250 job cuts

United Airlines is to axe 1,250 jobs and close three reservation centres as part of cost-cutting efforts aimed at saving the troubled US carrier about $100m (€102.7m) a year.

The announcement came three days after United, which is restructuring in an effort to stay out of bankruptcy, announced a 889 million-dollar third-quarter loss and said its operations had been losing about seven million dollars a day.