'This determination will provide significant support to workers and businesses across the country, while also appropriately compensating taxpayers.'
The Trump administration has quickened the pace of distributing the aid amid complaints that the process was moving too slowly as airlines - which are flying only 5 per cent of their usual load - bled cash.
The more than US$2 trillion federal stimulus package includes payroll grants of US$25 billion for passenger airlines, US$4 billion for cargo haulers and US$3 billion for airline contractors, plus another US$29 billion in loans for passenger and cargo carriers and US$10 billion in grants to airports. The US$25 billion set aside for that purpose won't cover all of the wages and benefits that airline employees earned a year ago. But most pilots and flight attendants are paid by the hour and should see a reduction in what they are paid through September even if they aren't laid off.
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