More than 32,000 airline workers are losing their jobs. Here’s how they’re bracing for unemployment, health coverage amid a pandemic, and whether they’d return to a flailing industry

More than 32,000 airline workers are losing their jobs. Here’s how they’re bracing for unemployment, health coverage amid a pandemic, and whether they’d return to a flailing industry

Nearly 20,000 American Airlines employees and thousands of others are losing their jobs as CARES Act funding requirements expired.







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Tens of thousands of airline workers are being furloughed as CARES Act funding requirements have expired.

A last-minute funding extension “” which workers and labor groups insist would have been a jobs program, rather than a bailout “” never materialized.

Business Insider spoke with airline employees facing prolonged unemployment in a faltering economy, plus a loss of health coverage during a global pandemic. Despite the current stress and uncertainty, most say they'd go back to the airline life in a heartbeat.

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