Qatar Airways to make ‘substantial’ job cuts

Qatar Airways is to hack out a “generous number” of occupations as the worldwide flight industry faces a “terrible” worldwide viewpoint with no predictable improvement, the carrier’s CEO has told workers.

In a 4 May letter to lodge team, Akbar Al Baker states: “truly, we basically can’t support the present staff numbers and should make a considerable number of employments excess – comprehensive of lodge group.”

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Subtleties of the arranged decreases will be imparted “in the up and coming weeks”, says Al Baker in the letter, and the carrier is building up an “uncommon enlistment program” to guarantee that staff can make a “quick return” to the aircraft “should the open door emerge”.

The aircraft has declined to remark further on what number of employments will be influenced, yet says it must “act definitively” to ensure its future.

“Qatar Airways can affirm that the carrier will make various jobs repetitive because of the effect of Covid-19,” it states. “Any activity misfortune is lamentable and we will be working intimately with every influenced representative to offer our full help during this troublesome time.”

Al Baker includes: “Notwithstanding the entirety of our endeavors and trusts in a speedy bounce back, we are confronting misfortune on an exceptional scale. The worldwide standpoint for our industry looks inauspicious and numerous carriers are shutting or fundamentally diminishing activities. Qatar Airways isn’t invulnerable to this test.”

The Doha-based Oneworld part should confront “another reality” wherein numerous worldwide outskirts are shut, “with no predictable standpoint for prompt, positive change”, says Al Baker.

Qatar Airways had indicated more obstruction than different carriers to cutting administrations, taking note of toward the beginning of April that it was “working with governments around the globe to keep up a solid calendar of flights, and arranging sanction flights where required”.