One after the other, the world airlines, faced with the blast of the coronavirus, are planning redundancies. Air Canada announced this weekend that it will cut its own by 50 to 60%. And it will soon be Emirates’ turn to indicate how it intends to reduce the sails.
In search of cost reductions, the company, in which the Dubai government will inject capital, plans to cut 30,000 jobs out of the 105,000 it had at the end of March, according to the Bloomberg agency, citing a source familiar with the matter. .
“No announcement has been made,” said the group in an email release, adding that “keeping the cash, saving the business and preserving our skilled workforce as much as possible remain our priorities.”
Savings already underway
Emirates was forced to suspend passenger flights on March 25 following the UAE’s decision to close its borders in an attempt to stem the epidemic of coronavirus.
The company had also put in place a savings plan, with the putting on holidays, paid or not, of employees, and a reduction from 25% to 50% of the majority of wages for a period of three months. The airline is scheduled to operate flights to nine cities again on May 21.
Emirates would also, according to Bloomberg, accelerate the withdrawal of the A 380 from its fleet. The company has the largest fleet of long-haul aircraft in the world (257 aircraft, including 113 Airbus A380).
These workforce reductions of 30,000 people will be added to the more than 40,000 jobs already eliminated in the air sector at the international level during a census on May 8. Announcements of workforce reductions from other industry players are expected to continue.
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