Social distancing on aircraft ‘nice’ but unrealistic: Emirates

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DUBAI: Emirates airline said Thursday it was unrealistic to establish social distancing on aircraft by leaving seats empty to curb the spread of coron...

: Emirates airline said Thursday it was unrealistic to establish social distancing on aircraft by leaving seats empty to curb the spread of coronavirus, as the cost would be too high to bear.

Emirates resumed operations two weeks later on a limited network and plans to fly to 58 cities by mid-August, down from about 157 before the crisis. “The economy of the aircraft is built on filling it, filling the seats,“ he said. “Having the space I don’t think is going to be an option unless the passenger is willing to pay.”The carrier has been forced to cut a tenth of its workforce in layoffs that could rise to 15 percent, or 9,000 jobs.

Its president Tim Clark has said that it could take up to four years for operations to return to “some degree of normality”.

 

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