Watch Now! As demand for air travel continues to plummet amid the coronavirus pandemic, airlines across the country are warning their employees of possible furloughs to come that number in the thousands. Kris Van Cleave reports. About this story: (Screen Reader) There are new warnings about the future of the ailing airline industry this week american and united announce plans to shed tens of thousands of jobs the results could be devastating nationwide is chris van cleave is at reagan national airport unless failings of helpless yolanda hughes has been a flight attendant for five years but her career is on the verge of being grounded because of the pandemonium in the unprecedented drop in travel demand curve at nineteen has shut down a lot of industries a lot of jobs.And, it makes it very difficult to find another job right now one of nearly thirty six thousand united airlines employees to receive notice they could be furloughed in october susannah carded too I would be absolutely I would be heart-broken cars no job-hunting this isn’t just, you know, an economy issue this also x so there’s the concern of not having health insurance day will not be alone citing an eighty percent drop in revenue american airlines could follow up to twenty five thousand employees delta lost four billion last quarter thursday ceo at bastion even after seventeen thousand took exit packages they’re still over staffed more than twenty five hundred pilots have been warned of a possible for level when the government payroll support engine september we share that october for wrist is going to be one of the darkest days for airline labor really since the dawn of commercial flight southwest has never had a furlough or layoff and it’s fifty three year history ceo gerry kelly in are you able to avoid layoffs and furloughs I don’t think that if things are going poorly still than that it means that on october first we have to have furloughs I don’t believe that but we can’t operate with near empty airplanes indefinitely on monday he told employees if passenger levels don’t triple by the end-of-the-year he cannot rule out job cuts cleaver cbs news washington.
