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The Qatar Airways CEO told the BBC that the company will lay off nearly 20 percent of its workforce after the outbreak of the Corona Virus Covid-19 virus destroyed demand for travel.
“Unfortunately, we will have to cut approximately 20 percent of the workforce,” Akbar Al-Baker said in a television interview, which was published by the BBC journalist on Twitter on Wednesday.
The cut, Al Baker said, was a “very difficult decision,” but the state airline had “no alternative.”
Reuters reported on May 5, based on an internal email, that Qatar Airways will cut a large number of jobs, including hospitality equipment.
The Qatar Airways group, which includes the airline, has 46,684 employees at the end of the last fiscal year, which announced its results in March 2019.
Al-Baker told Reuters in March that the company was draining cash and that it would eventually seek government assistance.
And the Qatari Ministry of Health announced Wednesday that 1,390 new cases of the new “Corona” virus had been registered in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases to date to 23,382.
Qatar has registered 124 new cases of cure in the last 24 hours, with a total of 3,143 cases.
The Qatari Ministry of Health has not mentioned new deaths from the “Corona” virus, and the total number of deaths is 14.
