Icelandic airline Icelandair announced deep job cuts due to the effects of the novel coronavirus crisis |
Icelandic
airline Icelandair said Tuesday it would lay off about 2,000 of its staff as
the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact air travel "for the
unforeseeable future."
In response
to the impact, Icelandair said the company was preparing for an "extended
period of minimum operations."
The company
said that "the employment of around two thousand employees will be
terminated," adding that crew, maintenance and ground operations, would be
most affected.
Icelandair
added that the "majority of the remaining employees continue in part-time
roles" and those in full-time positions would be affected by salary
reductions.
"These
measures are very painful yet necessary. We are facing considerable uncertainty
for the unforeseeable future," Bogi Nils Bogason, CEO of Icelandair, said
in a statement.
Bogason
added that they hoped to be able to offer those affected employment again once
markets started to recover.
In 2018,
Icelandair had some 4,600 full-time employees and carried 4.4 million
passengers, according to the company.
As of
Tuesday, Iceland had confirmed 1,795 cases of the new coronavirus and 10
deaths.
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