Report: Japan Airlines may cut 3,000 jobs

TOKYO, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Japan Airlines Corp. may cut 3,000 jobs, or 6 percent of the airline's workforce, over the next two or three years, a Japanese report said Tuesday.

Asia's largest airline would cut 1,000 jobs through early-retirement incentives next fiscal year and as many as another 2,000 jobs in the year or two following, Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun reported.

The airline, which also owns seven smaller airlines that feed or supplement mainline JAL flights, is expected to include the job reduction in a turnaround plan it will announce Feb 6, the newspaper said.

JAL had no immediate comment on the report.