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The English regional airline Flybe has gone bankrupt (2,400 jobs), as well as Air Italy (1,400 jobs). Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) wants to lay off 5,000 employees, almost half of its total workforce. Air France KLM wants to reduce its workforce by 8% (3,000 to 3,500 jobs), the German tourism group TUI by 10% (8,000 employees) and British Airways is cutting back one quarter of its workforce (12,000 jobs). Brussels Airlines, a subsidiary of Lufthansa, is to lay off one in four of its 4,000 employees. Icelandair will slash more than 2,000 of its 3,400 employees, the largest mass layoff in Iceland's history. Low-cost airlines are also reducing their staff: EasyJet from England by 30% (4,500 employees), Wizz Air from Hungary by 19% (1,000 jobs), Ryanair from Ireland by 15% (3,000 jobs). The ferry company P&O plans to lay off 1,100 employees in the ports of Hull and Dover.
The English restaurant chains Carluccio's (2,000 jobs) and The Restaurant Group (1,500 jobs) as well as Vapiano from Germany (2,500 jobs) have all had to file for bankruptcy. The Norwegian hotel chain Nordic Choice Hotels is cutting almost half of its workforce: 4,500 employees in Sweden and 3,000 in Norway and Denmark. The Swedish hotel chain Scandic plans to cut 2,000 jobs in Sweden alone. The British hotel and travel company Specialist Leisure Group (SLG) went into insolvency (2,500 jobs).
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2/2020
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