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Qantas to axe 6,000 jobs
Qantas has announced it is to cut 6,000 jobs.
The figure equates to one-fifth of its workforce prior to the Covid-19 crisis. In March, it furloughed more than 80% of its staff.
Chief executive Alan Joyce said the airline, and its budget subsidiary Jetstar, would continue to extend a furlough for about 15,000 workers ‘as we wait for the recovery we know is coming’.
He said: "Many of the 6,000 job losses we have announced today are people we have spent decades with here – people we have known for a long time."
Qantas statement and details here.
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Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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