In another round of job cuts, Emirates airline has laid off more pilots and cabin crew this week as the Gulf airline continues to down size its workforce due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The airline has been cutting thousands of jobs, including pilots and cabin crew as it manages a cash crunch caused by COVID-19 pandemic.
Company's spokesperson on Thursday did not say how many employees had been made redundant in this week's job cuts or from which departments; but says, the workforce of 4,300 pilots and nearly 22,000 cabin crew could shrink by almost one third.
Mostly Airbus A380 pilots were affected by the job cuts this week, two sources said, and one of the sources said more redundancies were expected.
"Like other airlines and travel companies, Covid-19 has hit us hard, and as a responsible business, we simply must right-size our workforce in line with our reduced operational".
Mostly Airbus A380 pilots were affected by the job cuts this week, two sources said, and one of the sources said more redundancies were expected.
"Like other airlines and travel companies, Covid-19 has hit us hard, and as a responsible business, we simply must right-size our workforce in line with our reduced operational".
Emirates Chief Operating Officer Adel Ahmad Al Redha said on June 25, not all of its 115 Airbus A380s would return to service this year and that the airline needed to review its strategy.
Emirates Group which laid-off pilots and cabin crew last month, is still in the process of implementing the redundancy exercise," the spokesperson said.
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