Dubai’s Emirates airline begins cutting staff amid global coronavirus downturn

  • Date: 10-Jun-2020
  • Source: Al Arabiya
  • Sector:Transport
  • Country:UAE
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Dubai’s Emirates airline begins cutting staff amid global coronavirus downturn

Emirates airline, one of the world's biggest long-haul carriers, has begun cutting staff as it looks to sustain its business activities amid a global slowdown in travel due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to media reports.. Outgoing Emirates' President Tim Clark said last week it could take up to four years for the airline to resume flying to its entire network as the coronavirus hits demand across the world.. "I think probably by the year 2022/23, 2023/24 we will see things coming back to some degree of normality and Emirates will be operating its network as it was and hopefully as successfully as it was," Clark said in a webcast interview with aviation consultant John Strickland, Reuters reported.. The airline has been gradually opening up bookings to destinations around the world as lockdown measures aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus begin to ease.. On Tuesday, Emirates announced it would start flights to Kabul, Afghanistan from June 25, bringing the total number of destinations offered by the airline to 30..