{"id":383461,"date":"2020-11-10T11:12:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T05:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=383461"},"modified":"2020-11-10T11:47:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T06:17:56","slug":"etihad-warns-pilots-of-immediate-job-cuts-as-pandemic-crisis-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/etihad-warns-pilots-of-immediate-job-cuts-as-pandemic-crisis-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Etihad warns pilots of immediate job cuts as pandemic crisis continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Abu Dhabi&#8217;s Etihad Airways has warned pilots of immediate compulsory layoffs this week as demand for air travel fails to recover as quickly as expected from the coronavirus crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The warning in a letter to pilots, seen by Reuters, comes a day after the state airline said it was pushing on with plans to shrink to a mid-sized carrier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The hard reality is that, despite all hopes, our industry is simply not recovering quick enough and we will continue to be a much smaller airline for some time,&#8221; pilots were told in an email distributed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on all these factors, it has become clear that we have no choice but to further reduce our workforce.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Abu Dhabi&#8217;s Etihad Airways has warned pilots of immediate compulsory layoffs this week as demand for air travel fails to recover as quickly as expected from the coronavirus crisis. The warning in a letter to pilots, seen by Reuters, comes a day after the state airline said it was pushing on with plans to shrink to a mid-sized carrier. &#8220;The hard reality is that, despite all hopes, our industry is simply not recovering quick enough and we will continue to be a much smaller airline for some time,&#8221; pilots were told in an email distributed on Monday. &#8220;Based on [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383461","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=383461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}