{"id":428999,"date":"2021-08-04T10:58:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T05:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=428999"},"modified":"2021-08-04T12:04:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T06:34:02","slug":"australias-qantas-to-furlough-2500-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/australias-qantas-to-furlough-2500-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Qantas to furlough 2,500 workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY: Australian airline Qantas announced Tuesday it will furlough 2,500 workers as coronavirus outbreaks and regional lockdowns pummel demand for flights. <\/p>\n<p>Pilots, cabin crew and airport workers from Qantas and its low-cost affiliate Jetstar will be sent home without pay from mid-August for an estimated two months, the firm said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is clearly the last thing we want to do, but we&#8217;re now faced with an extended period of reduced flying and that means no work for a number of our people,&#8221; CEO Alan Joyce said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>Qantas said the airline had gone from operating almost 100 percent of its usual domestic flying capacity in May to less than 40 percent in July due to coronavirus restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY: Australian airline Qantas announced Tuesday it will furlough 2,500 workers as coronavirus outbreaks and regional lockdowns pummel demand for flights. Pilots, cabin crew and airport workers from Qantas and its low-cost affiliate Jetstar will be sent home without pay from mid-August for an estimated two months, the firm said. &#8220;This is clearly the last thing we want to do, but we&#8217;re now faced with an extended period of reduced flying and that means no work for a number of our people,&#8221; CEO Alan Joyce said in a statement. Qantas said the airline had gone from operating almost 100 percent [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428999","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=428999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}