Boeing American Airlines announced a reduction of 1 thousand 20 employees in the United States. As reported in a statement the company had reached agreement on this issue with the union, Associated Press transmits.

The bulk of cuts are planned by April of this year in Puget Sound in Washington in parts of the research center.

Currently, the number of Boeing employees in Washington accounts for about 158 thousand people.

Boeing is one of the world's largest aerospace corporations. It is a manufacturer of carrier rockets, telecommunication satellites, both civilian and military aircrafts. It also operates in the field of missile defense, human space flight and launch services of spacecraft. Major manufacturing facilities are located in Seattle (Washington), California, Saint Louis (Missouri). The headquarters of Boeing is in Chicago (Illinois).

The Corporation includes a number of companies, including Commercial Airplanes, Integrated Defense Systems, Boeing Capital Corporation and Connexion by Boeing. Since 1992 Boeing has been working closely with enterprises of Russia's aerospace industry, as well as with airlines in Russia and CIS countries.