{"id":381569,"date":"2020-11-02T08:31:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T03:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=381569"},"modified":"2020-11-02T08:45:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T03:15:03","slug":"netherlands-puts-klm-bailout-on-hold-after-pilots-reject-wage-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/netherlands-puts-klm-bailout-on-hold-after-pilots-reject-wage-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands puts KLM bailout on hold after pilots reject wage freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch government on Saturday put on hold its plan to bail out KLM, the Dutch arm of Air France-KLM, after pilots rejected a wage-freeze until 2025, Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra said. <\/p>\n<p>KLM had been due to receive a 3.4-billion-euro ($4.0 billion) package, including one billion euros in direct loans. from the government to help it cope with the damage from the coronavirus pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I find it very disappointing, but this way we cannot move forward with the loan now,&#8221; Hoekstra told journalists. <\/p>\n<p>The pilots&#8217; union argued that it had already agreed to a freeze until March 2022, and could not now change that agreement at the last minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch government on Saturday put on hold its plan to bail out KLM, the Dutch arm of Air France-KLM, after pilots rejected a wage-freeze until 2025, Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra said. KLM had been due to receive a 3.4-billion-euro ($4.0 billion) package, including one billion euros in direct loans. from the government to help it cope with the damage from the coronavirus pandemic. &#8220;I find it very disappointing, but this way we cannot move forward with the loan now,&#8221; Hoekstra told journalists. The pilots&#8217; union argued that it had already agreed to a freeze until March 2022, and could [&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-381569","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\/381569","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=381569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}