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KINGSTON, Jamaica - The head of Air Jamaica says the ailing carrier must eliminate six unprofitable routes and slash staff next month.
Bruce Noble is the chief executive of the debt-ridden airline. He says Air Jamaica's flights to Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, Barbados, Grenada and the island of Grand Cayman will be cut in late February.
Noble said Tuesday that Jamaica's national carrier had to "cut routes where we are losing money."
He says an undetermined number of workers will be dismissed around the same time.
Air Jamaica has eliminated other routes and trimmed its workforce in recent years.
Jamaica expects to divest itself from the airline by April. Prime Minister Bruce Golding has said the carrier was losing US$141 million a year.
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