1,000 jobs to be axed at Brussels Airlines

Management at Brussels Airlines have announced that as many as 1,000 of the more 4,000 people that work at the airline face losing their jobs.

The announcement was made during an extraordinary meeting of the airline’s works council on Tuesday.

Like airlines the world over, Brussels Airlines has been severely impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.

Brussels Airlines says that it needed to act in order to ensure its future viability. The novel coronavirus pandemic has brought aviation to a near stand-still and the impact is likely to be felt for some time yet. The airline expects it to be another three years before demand for flight reaches the level it was prior to the crisis.

Now management at Brussels Airlines has decided to decommission 10 of the airline’s 48 aircraft and to scrap the routes that are unprofitable or barely profitable

Brussels Airlines is a subsidiary of the German Airline Lufthansa. Previously the airline had asked the Belgian government for financial help.

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