Earlier this week, Emirates laid off more cabin crew and pilots in a bid to stop bleeding cash caused by the Coronavirus pandemic.
According to AvGeek Philippines sources, hundreds of cabin crew and pilots (for both Airbus A380 and Boeing B777) of the state-owned flag carrier were severed from active duty as their positions were declared as redundant as of Tuesday.
This development is a complete opposite of what was expected following the airline’s claim that the Dubai government promised to provide a fresh inflow of cash to the hard-hit airline last month. Initially, Emirates said that it may take up to four (04) years before they can resume flights to all of their 157 destinations worldwide prior to the pandemic.
Since March this year, Emirates operations was limited to mostly outbound flights out of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Earlier this month, the airline resumed some of their flights to global destinations, as lock and travel bans has been eased out by different nations.
Prior to this round of layoffs, airport services provider, DNATA (Dubai National Air Transport Association, also part of the Emirates Group) declared several job posts in Dubai’s Al Maktoum Airport as redundant and placed thousands of their employees globally under unpaid leaves.