News: Emirates airline plans to chop up to 9,000 jobs: Report

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Emirates airline plans to chop up to 9,000 jobs: Report

The carrier resumed two weeks later of the pandemic hit on a limited network and plans to fly to 58 cities by mid-August, down from about 157 before the crisis.
Emirates airline plans to chop up to 9,000 jobs: Report

The Middle East's largest carrier, Emirates airline has cut a tenth of its workforce during the novel coronavirus pandemic in layoffs that could rise to 15 percent, or 9,000 jobs, its president said, according to a report on Saturday.

The carrier operates a fleet of 270 wide-bodied aircraft, halted operations in late March as part of global shutdowns to stem the spread of the virus.

It resumed two weeks later on a limited network and plans to fly to 58 cities by mid-August, down from about 157 before the crisis.

However, its president Tim Clark has said previously that it could take up to four years for operations to return to "some degree of normality", and the airline has been planning rounds of layoffs, as recently as last week. However, they are not disclosing numbers.

As per their annual report, before the COVID crisis had hit, Emirates employed some 60,000 staff, including 4,300 pilots and nearly 22,000 cabin crew.

Clark said in an interview with a media firm that the airline had already cut a tenth of its staff and that Emirates "will probably have to let go of a few more, probably up to 15 percent".

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said that airlines are in line to make a combined net loss of more than $84 billion this year in the wake of the pandemic crisis, the biggest in the industry's history.

Clark said in the interview that Emirates was "not as badly off as others" but that the crisis hit just as it was "heading for one of our best years ever".

 

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Topics: Employee Relations, #Jobs, #COVID-19

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