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Business News of Monday, 15 June 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Qatar Airways announces pay cut for foreign pilots

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Qatar Airways has announced that foreign pilots will have to receive a pay cut, while others will be made redundant due to revenue collapse caused by COVID-19.

The airline made the announcement on Monday in a memo which was seen by AFP.

Recall that the Gulf airline, which flew to more than 170 destinations with 234 aircraft as of March, slashed its passenger services to just 35 destinations.

Qatar Airways' most senior pilots "will be subjected to a 25 per cent reduction" in salaries, chief flight operations officer Jassim al-Haroon wrote to pilots in a memo dated June 4.

"In the upcoming weeks many of our captains, senior first officers, first officers and cadet pilots will be made redundant," Haroon wrote, without specifying how many would be let go.

More junior pilots will face an immediate 15 per cent cut to their salaries, although the measures will not be applied to the airline's Qatari pilots, the memo added.

France24 reports that the airline warned cabin crew at the start of May that they faced "substantial" job losses.