Qantas Airways Ltd has told pilots it plans to make an announcement on the airline’s future direction by the end of the month and that it hopes to avoid forced job cuts among flight crew, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
Qantas International Chief Executive Tino La Spina made the remarks at a webinar with pilots on Monday, said the people, who declined to be identified as they were not authorised to speak with media.
La Spina said avoiding forced redundancies, which he would view as a “failure”, would require flexibility from the workforce as the airline grapples with the coronavirus outbreak, the people said.
Measures could include early retirement, voluntary redundancy and pilots agreeing to be paid for fewer than the minimum hours in their industrial agreements due to the lack of flying, one of the people said.
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