Adds extra on necessary COVID testing AMSTERDAM, Jan 21 (Re
Adds extra on necessary COVID testing
AMSTERDAM, Jan 21 (Reuters) – KLM AIRF.PA mentioned it will lower an extra 1,000 jobs in 2021 and warned on Thursday that authorities plans to require all passengers and crew to move a COVID-19 check earlier than flying to the Netherlands would floor its long-haul flights.
KLM, which already lower 5,000 jobs final yr, joined different airways working within the Netherlands to criticise a proposed requirement for all inbound passengers to point out a detrimental consequence from a “quick” COVID-19 check taken inside 4 hours of boarding a aircraft.
“The Netherlands can be the one nation on the earth to undertake such far-reaching measures,” the businesses mentioned in a press release.
KLM mentioned that the brand new rule, proposed by the Dutch authorities on Wednesday, would power it to halt all 270 of its present long-haul flights from Friday, as a result of threat of regularly having crew members grounded and quarantined in overseas international locations.
The corporate’s resolution means it will additionally must cease working freight-only flights from Asia, which has been one in every of its few enterprise strains to develop throughout the coronavirus disaster, offsetting income losses of roughly two-thirds general.
Thursday’s assertion asking the federal government to rethink was revealed by KLM and signed by easyJet, Corendon, Transavia, TUI and Barin and mentioned it had “assist” from the Worldwide Aviation and Transport Affiliation (IATA).
The rule threatens the Netherlands “being related with the remainder of the world, the Dutch buying and selling place and employment within the aviation sector,” the businesses mentioned.
(Reporting by Toby Sterling Enhancing by David Goodman and Elaine Hardcastle)
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