Asiana Airlines asks cabin crew to take unpaid leave
Asiana Airlines is the latest Asian carrier to ask its workforce to take unpaid leave.
The airline’s scheduled flights to China have been heavily reduced and it is asking cabin crew to take two weeks’ unpaid voluntary leave until the end of February.
It will also accept unpaid leave applications for March too.
A company official said the number of crew that will likely take unpaid leave this month is in the hundreds.
Asiana has about 4,000 crew members.
The airline has suspended nearly half of its 26 routes to mainland China, and reduced capacity on 12 other routes.
Only two South Korea-China routes are unaffected.
It is operating only 57 weekly flights to China compared to more than 200 before the covid-19 outbreak.
The virus has now killed more than 1,100 people in mainland China.
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