United airlines layoffs. 1 but it hopes to bring many workers back when the air travel industry. Airlines have suffered major losses since travel screeched to a near halt as the. Staff most of whom are represented by unions.
Local employees include flight attendants pilots ground crew catering staff aircraft mechanics and others. United officials said wednesday they still hope to limit the number of layoffs by offering early retirement packages and that the 36000 number is a worst case scenario. Executives said the notices covered 45 of the airlines us.
Layoffs are the last option left to protect the long term interests of the company said the senior united official who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity. United said it could lay off up to 2250 pilots as part of the 36000 layoffs. United has 93000 employees.
They would have reinstatement rights if uniteds fortunes improve. Delta air lines and united airlines the worlds second and third largest airlines in terms of fleet size are about to lay off tens of thousands of employees starting this year as covid 19. United airlines airline tickets travel deals and flights if youre seeing this message that means javascript has been disabled on your browser please enable js.
United airlines could lay off more than 4700 workers in dallas and houston when airline stimulus restrictions end on oct. And united isnt the only airline to announce cuts to its administrative staff. The airline currently employs about 1200 workers at hopkins a one time hub for united.