{"id":369687,"date":"2020-08-25T08:48:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T03:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=369687"},"modified":"2020-08-25T09:32:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T04:02:51","slug":"delta-air-lines-set-to-furlough-1941-pilots-as-25-bn-stimulus-runs-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delta-air-lines-set-to-furlough-1941-pilots-as-25-bn-stimulus-runs-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Air Lines set to furlough 1,941 pilots as $25 bn stimulus runs out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (Reuters) &#8211; Delta Air Lines is set to furlough 1,941 pilots in October, the carrier said in a memo to employees on Monday that noted the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and plunging air travel demand. <\/p>\n<p>U.S. airlines have warned they will need to furlough tens of thousands of workers once $25 billion in U.S. government stimulus funds run out in September. The aid, which covered employees&#8217; pay, was meant to help them weather the pandemic and preserve jobs until a recovery, but travel remains depressed. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are six months into this pandemic and only 25% of our revenues have been recovered. Unfortunately, we see few catalysts over the next six months to meaningful change this trajectory,&#8221; Delta&#8217;s head of flight operations John Laughter said in the memo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (Reuters) &#8211; Delta Air Lines is set to furlough 1,941 pilots in October, the carrier said in a memo to employees on Monday that noted the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and plunging air travel demand. U.S. airlines have warned they will need to furlough tens of thousands of workers once $25 billion in U.S. government stimulus funds run out in September. The aid, which covered employees&#8217; pay, was meant to help them weather the pandemic and preserve jobs until a recovery, but travel remains depressed. &#8220;We are six months into this pandemic and only 25% of our revenues [&hellip;]<\/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-369687","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\/369687","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=369687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}