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Former TWA Workers Feel Doubly Betrayed by Layoffs.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2003

By Ina Paiva Cordle, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 4--Pam Sword surveys her half-finished kitchen remodeling project, now on hold, and worries about how she will pay for health insurance.

Her ideas for a new career haven't quite jelled and she is still too depressed to plot her future.

"I'll probably be going back to school at 53 years old," said Sword, a furloughed American Airlines flight attendant who lives in Boynton Beach. "I've been flying for 23 years. This is my fourth airline. It's a little hard to regroup and start your life over again." Sword was laid off by American last month, one of thousands of former TWA flight attendants hardest hit by American's financial woes.

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