Emirates’ Clark says Dubai airline to cut 10-20% jobs

  • Date: 11-Jul-2020
  • Source: Khaleej Times
  • Sector:Transport
  • Country:UAE
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Emirates’ Clark says Dubai airline to cut 10-20% jobs

The airline will be back at the pre-Covid levels by the summer of 2022, said Clark.





The President of Dubai's flagship carrier Emirates airline says that the airline will have shrunk its workforce by between 10 and 20 per cent by the end of it and that it was burning up to $1 million cash an hour at the worst of the Covid-led global restrictions that saw a sudden and exhaustive freeze in air travel across almost all regions of the world.

Clark made these comments in an interview with CNN's Richard Quest for the Quest Means Business programme. Operationally, said Clark, the airline will be back at the pre-Covid levels (end-2019 levels) by the summer of 2022.

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"To be honest, we will be between 10% and 20% in the end," said Clark in response to a question about some of the other global carriers having to shrink their workforces by up to 30 per cent. "We are probably not quite the same as many airlines because, don't forget, most of our workforce is expatriate. Once they have left the United Arab Emirates and Dubai in particular, it becomes