COVID-19: 500 Airline Staff Test Positive For Coronavirus

Posted by Lanre Aerodove on June 24, 2020 in Aviation Business COVID-19 Foreign | Comments : 8

Not less than 500 staff of Atlanta-Based airline, have tested positive for coronavirus.

The CEO of Delta Airline, Ed Bastian, has said that about 500 staff of the company have tested positive for corona virus.
Bastian, confirmed this during the annual shareholder's meeting of the company.

He added that ten employees have also died from the virus.
“We lost ten employees to the Coronavirus, every one of them breaks my heart. Among other 500 employees who contracted the virus, the vast majority have recovered.” Bastian said in a statement.

He stressed further that tests are being conducted to know the status of approximately 90,000 staff of the airline. This has to be done in order to provide better protection for our people and of course, our customers.
Bastian also spoke about economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Saying, the aviation industry has been hit badly as demand for air travel dropped to almost zero.
According to him, it could take two to three years to recover revenue and return to a new level.