NEW YORK - The avalanche of U.S. airline job cuts has more than doubled to 70,000 as carriers, hit by airport shutdowns and dwindling demand, slash payrolls in anticipation of multibillion-dollar losses.

WASHINGTON -- Massive airline layoffs. Empty hotels and restaurants. Wall Street's biggest weekly point decline ever. The economic damage from the terrorist attacks...

...for worker retraining through the dislocated-worker program had been building before Sept. 11, she said. The airline layoffs and economic downturn are accelerating them. Each of the 4,500 airline jobs expected to be lost will produce two...

...in salaries and bonuses than in the previous year. As conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly said shortly after airline layoffs were announced, "It is time for the corporations to step up and serve America and not themselves. Everybody including...