Airline cuts flights and jobs.AMERICAN-ownedContinental Airlines, which has a call centre in Liverpool Liverpool, city (1991 pop. 448,300), NW England, on the Mersey River near its mouth. It is one of Britain's largest cities. A large center for food processing (especially flour and sugar), Liverpool has a variety of industries, including the manufacture of electrical , is to reduce its UK to the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. services because of lack of demand, it was announced yesterday. Continental is cutting its Gatwick-Newark and Gatwick-Houston operations from two flights a day to one a day between April 7 and May 2. The carrier will also reduce its Gatwick to Cleveland, Ohio "Cleveland" redirects here. For the Cleveland metropolitan area, see . For other uses, see Cleveland (disambiguation). Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. , services from daily to five a week from April 16 to May 2. The reductions came as the airline also announced it was cutting 1,200 jobs as part of an attempt to reduce costs by pounds 330m. Continental said it planned to restore its full UK-US service for the summer travel season but warned that should demand stay low the reductions could be ``extended or expanded''. Passengers affected by the cuts were being asked to contact the airline. |
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