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Irish airline Aer Lingus, which has posted losses consistently over the last months, has announced that cuts originally planned to affect about 600 people, will now likely reach over 1,000. Talks between the company and its unions broke down earlier this week, as the negotiations failed to reach agreement on working conditions, staff reductions, and pay cuts. After talks broke down, Aer Lingus announced that they would begin immediately retiring some planes and cutting routes, which would then require a number of compulsory redundancies. Redundancies are expected to begin immediately. Cuts with an agreement were expected to affect 676 people, but Aer Lingus CEO said this morning that the total will probably reach 1,000. Aer Lingus blamed the breakdown specifically on the pilot's union, saying that they felt confident they were headed towards agreements with all other unions and divisions, and that the pilots were only willing to make short-term and not any long-term concessions.