Finland's national carrier said Tuesday it will cut 700 jobs - over 10% of its workforce - by the end of March next year due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global travel.
Finnair, which is heavily focused on flights from Europe to Asia, said Tuesday that some 600 of the redundancies would be in Finland and another 100 outside the Nordic country.
Finnair CEO Topi Manner said in a statement that the corona pandemic has been completely unfair to our industry and unfortunately many Finnair employees now must experience its financial implications personally.
He said that the job cuts are necessary and inevitable. Finnair's re-build requires us to be competitive when aviation gradually starts to recover.
Therefore, in the future, we will have to do many things differently in order to succeed in the competitive market.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced almost all global airlines to halt most of their flights. Finnair has already temporarily laid off a large part of its 6,500 staff and its flight traffic was down 91% in September from the previous year. The layoffs are the first permanent cuts it has announced so far.
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