Heathrow Airport has launched a voluntary redundancy scheme and warned it cannot rule out further job cuts.
The company, which has around 7,000 directly employed staff, said it had agreed the scheme with unions as it battles to recover from the coronavirus crisis.
Chief executive John Holland-Kaye said: “Throughout this crisis we have tried to protect frontline jobs but this is no longer sustainable, and we have now agreed a voluntary severance scheme with our union partners.
“While we cannot rule out further job reductions, we will continue to explore options to minimise the number of job losses.”
British Airways, which operates the most flights to and from the airport, has previously announced a plan to cut up to 12,000 jobs.
A total of 76,000 people are employed across 400 different companies at Heathrow.
Mr Holland-Kaye told the City AM podcast last week that cuts being made by airlines mean around 25,000 of these jobs could be at risk.
