Southwest Airlines will be laying off about 300 ground workers from its AirTran Airways’ workforce at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
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Southwest bought AirTran in 2011.
Read more at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution