{"id":341927,"date":"2020-03-16T10:29:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T04:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=341927"},"modified":"2020-03-16T10:56:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T05:26:47","slug":"british-airways-to-cut-jobs-as-virus-affects-demand-for-air-travel-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/british-airways-to-cut-jobs-as-virus-affects-demand-for-air-travel-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways to cut jobs as virus affects demand for air travel: CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways will cut jobs after the coronavirus pandemic devastated demand for global air travel, its chief executive Alex Cruz said Friday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be frank, given the changing circumstances, we can no longer sustain our current level of employment and jobs will be lost &#8212; perhaps for a short period, perhaps longer term,&#8221; Cruz said in an internal memo confirmed by the group. <\/p>\n<p>Global airlines have cancelled thousands of flights worldwide, as COVID-19 decimates demand for passenger travel, with destinations to China and Italy in particularly hit hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways will cut jobs after the coronavirus pandemic devastated demand for global air travel, its chief executive Alex Cruz said Friday. &#8220;To be frank, given the changing circumstances, we can no longer sustain our current level of employment and jobs will be lost &#8212; perhaps for a short period, perhaps longer term,&#8221; Cruz said in an internal memo confirmed by the group. Global airlines have cancelled thousands of flights worldwide, as COVID-19 decimates demand for passenger travel, with destinations to China and Italy in particularly hit hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}