{"id":369766,"date":"2020-08-25T11:12:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T05:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=369766"},"modified":"2020-08-25T11:49:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T06:19:31","slug":"qantas-plans-to-cut-2500-more-jobs-as-cost-of-crisis-mounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/qantas-plans-to-cut-2500-more-jobs-as-cost-of-crisis-mounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Qantas plans to cut 2,500 more jobs as cost of crisis mounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qantas Airways Ltd. plans to cut as many as 2,500 more jobs by offloading ground operations like baggage handling and aircraft cleaning as the cost of the coronavirus pandemic mounts. <\/p>\n<p>The reductions follow previously announced plans to eliminate 6,000 jobs, or 20% of the workforce, the airline said in a statement Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAirlines have to change how they operate to ensure they can survive long term,\u201d Andrew David, head of Qantas\u2019s domestic business, said. \u201cThis is the unfortunate reality of what Covid-19 has done to our industry.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The crisis has deepened in recent weeks in Australia, with Melbourne in lockdown as it fights an infection flareup and internal state borders set to stay closed for months. That\u2019s left Qantas flying just 20% of its normal domestic schedule, its main profit engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qantas Airways Ltd. plans to cut as many as 2,500 more jobs by offloading ground operations like baggage handling and aircraft cleaning as the cost of the coronavirus pandemic mounts. The reductions follow previously announced plans to eliminate 6,000 jobs, or 20% of the workforce, the airline said in a statement Tuesday. \u201cAirlines have to change how they operate to ensure they can survive long term,\u201d Andrew David, head of Qantas\u2019s domestic business, said. \u201cThis is the unfortunate reality of what Covid-19 has done to our industry.\u201d The crisis has deepened in recent weeks in Australia, with Melbourne in lockdown [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369766","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=369766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}