Due to weak demand: Emirates fires hundreds of pilots and flight attendants

The Golf Airline expects demand to remain weak for a long time and must therefore save. Emirates is now giving notice.

“The world is quarantined,” said CEO Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum. And that’s why Emirates stopped its passenger flights on March 25, with a few exceptions. Meanwhile, the planes take off again regularly to a limited number of destinations. However, the golf airline does not expect demand to recover quickly to the previous level.

Emirates therefore wants to cancel or at least postpone aircraft orders. The airline has also announced that there will also be cuts in personnel. It currently employs 60,000 people. How big the job cuts will be, she did not say.

“Excessive personnel surplus”

As two sources tell aeroTELEGRAPH, the golf airline has now sent cancellations. It is said to involve several hundred pilots and several thousand flight attendants. The airline does not want to confirm the numbers, but the measure does.

“Given the significant impact of the pandemic on our business, however, we simply cannot maintain excessive staffing levels and have to adapt our workforce to the reduced flight operations,” said a spokesman.

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