{"id":376945,"date":"2020-10-06T09:18:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T03:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=376945"},"modified":"2020-10-06T11:08:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T05:38:52","slug":"philippine-airlines-to-cut-up-to-2700-jobs-due-to-covid-19-pandemic-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/philippine-airlines-to-cut-up-to-2700-jobs-due-to-covid-19-pandemic-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippine Airlines to cut up to 2,700 jobs due to Covid-19 pandemic impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philippine Airlines Inc (PAL) said on Monday it is cutting up to a third of its workforce, or around 2,700 jobs, as the aviation sector continues to suffer from pandemic-driven travel curbs. <\/p>\n<p>The Southeast Asian nation&#8217;s carriers, which halted operations in mid-March as President Rodrigo Duterte imposed one of the world&#8217;s strictest and longest coronavirus lockdowns, are slowly ramping up operations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The collapse in travel demand and persistent travel restrictions on most global and domestic routes have made retrenchment inevitable,&#8221; PAL said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The retrenchment programme this quarter could cover up to 35% of its roughly 7,800 personnel, it added.<br \/>\nPAL is running less than 15% of its normal number of daily flights eight months after the Philippine government imposed travel curbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippine Airlines Inc (PAL) said on Monday it is cutting up to a third of its workforce, or around 2,700 jobs, as the aviation sector continues to suffer from pandemic-driven travel curbs. The Southeast Asian nation&#8217;s carriers, which halted operations in mid-March as President Rodrigo Duterte imposed one of the world&#8217;s strictest and longest coronavirus lockdowns, are slowly ramping up operations. &#8220;The collapse in travel demand and persistent travel restrictions on most global and domestic routes have made retrenchment inevitable,&#8221; PAL said in a statement. The retrenchment programme this quarter could cover up to 35% of its roughly 7,800 personnel, [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376945","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=376945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}