Turkish Airlines Resists Layoffs, Announces Deep Pay Cuts

Turkish Airlines said it will implement pay cuts amid coronavirus pandemic.

Unlike other European airlines that have laid off, thousands of workers, Turkish Airlines says it will protect jobs and reduce its cash outflow rather than redundancy.
The airline said, “It is a fact known to all of our stakeholders that this process is a provisional solution, and the main expectation of our Company and our employees is the wage arrangement, which is a permanent measure suitable for this extraordinary period that will protect the employment”.

Turkish Airlines has earlier announced it would resist layoffs and protect skilled labor until the end of 2021 when it expects the aviation industry to return to pre-pandemic operation levels.

In an interview with an Istanbul-based media, Turkish Airlines Chief Executive Ilker Ayci said, “I do not regard 2020 and 2021 as years of profitability, but years of employment protection. We aim to protect employment until the end of 2021. Our job is to resist layoffs as much as we can. The aviation industry faces a shortage of skilled professionals and reserving our skilled workforce as much as possible is our top priority throughout this period”.

Turkey’s flag carrier resumed international flights in June and will extend its international destinations with flights to Russia, Kuwait, India, and South Africa in August.
The airline has a flight network spanning 126 countries and 316 cities, making it the carrier that flies to the greatest number of countries non-stop from a single airport in the world.
Turkish Airlines employs 5,432 pilots and 12,052 cabin crew in addition to 46,482 personnel across all its business units and subsidiaries, making it one of the biggest employers among European airlines. As Europe’s third-largest airline, it also has 360 aircraft in its fleet.



Credit: The Airline

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