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EasyJet, American Airlines to slash workforce amid pandemic
May 28, 2020 53 secs
European budget carrier easyJet and American Airlines both plan to cut large parts of their workforces as the global aviation industry struggles to cope with a near total halt to travel amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We do it to make sure that easyJet not only survives through this period, but also comes out of this as a strong and competitive company,'' CEO Johan Lundgren said.

American Airlines, meanwhile, plans to cut its 17,000 management and support staff by 30%, or about 5,100 jobs.

Airlines are cutting jobs, going bankrupt and seeking bailouts, including Germany's Lufthansa, Latam Airlines and the major U.S.

“Given easyJet is a British company, the U.K

taxpayer, I can safely say that we will need a lot of convincing that easyJet needs to make such dramatic cuts,” he said

is going the other way,” he said

“How do you explain to British people that we’ll see Germans and other European nationalities going to holidays in Greece and parts of Spain where there’s less risk of being infected than in places in the U.K.?''

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