Hardly surprising, given that a sizable part of their market is off-limits for foreign travel, who knows for how long. Hungary is closed to foreigners, apart from a few limited cases, and their own nationals are also subject to restrictions. Last week the PM explicitly told the nation not to book any foreign holidays after 1 September. Something similar applies to Ukraine. Travel restrictions in Russia have postponed the opening of the new Saint Petersburg base. Travel restrictions and the resulting low demand have also delayed the expansion of the Belgrade base into 2021. Georgia is also off-limits until at least 30 September, but possibly for much longer as they extend the NOTAM month for month. Poland just banned flights to some destinations, including but not limited to Spain. The situation with quarantine-free travel to and from the UK remains highly uncertain, adversely affecting demand. And the list goes on and on.
With this state of affairs, it would be delusional to hope for any recruitment before 2021. Let's hope that at least there is no further retrenchment since running 60% of the pre-COVID capacity while having retained 81% of the pre-COVID workforce may also be seen as one in four people being surplus to the requirements at this stage. And the fear of new job losses is already getting very real, from what I'm hearing.