MANILA: Philippine Airlines (PAL) said on Saturday (Feb 29) that it has laid off 300 ground-based and management staff as part of a business restructuring plan to manage the company losses sustained from travel restrictions to coronavirus-stricken destinations.
MANILA: Philippine Airlines said on Saturday that it has laid off 300 ground-based and management staff as part of a business restructuring plan to manage the company losses sustained from travel restrictions to Covid-19 -stricken destinations.
The Philippines' largest airline said it completed implementing on Friday"voluntary separation initiative for long-serving employees and a retrenchment process."Affected employees will receive appropriate separation benefits, additional trip pass privileges, and assistance in the form of career counselling and outplacement support," PAL said.
The airline said"the streamlining will strengthen the company in the wake of losses sustained in 2019, aggravated by the ongoing travel restrictions and flight suspensions to areas affected by Covid-19." "Other initiatives include revenue generation from an optimized route network and new ancillary products, more aggressive cost-management efforts, and investment in digital technology," it said.
PAL was experiencing an expanding loss in 2019. PAL Holdings, the parent firm of PAL, early told the Philippine Stock Exchange that its total comprehensive loss in first nine months of 2019 expanded by 139.2% to 7.86 billion pesos from 3.29 billion pesos in the same period of 2018. - Xinhua/Asian News Network
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