THOMAS Cook is to axe more than 500 jobs in its retail
agencies and JMC Airlines.
The company plans to scrap the role of sales administrator
in its smaller shops, affecting 270 people, while in its larger shops 140 sales
administrators will have their hours reduced.
Thomas Cook also proposes to make 100 JMC Airlines cabin crew
redundant at the end of this year’s summer season.
Chief executive officer of Thomas Cook UK Alan Stewart said:
“Over the past 12 months we have made a significant investment in IT and systems
which has resulted in a major improvement in the efficiency of how we manage
our administration activities in the travel shops. As a result of this we are
proposing to phase out or down-size the role of sales administrator.”
Stewart said the decision had been made before the events in
the US on September 11.
Only last week the company revealed plans to axe sixty
managerial jobs in an attempt to streamline the business.