United Airlines said last week that it somehow avoided layoffs when about 2000 flight attendants agreed to take furloughs or other steps (voluntary). United announced last year that it need to cut about 1.5k flight attendant jobs and said last month it would need to eliminate another 600 jobs (ouch).
Now, with 2k attendants agreeing to take voluntary steps all of the sudden United is able to meet its job-reduction target without workforce reduction.