Aerospace giant Airbus is to cut 1,700 jobs in the UK, the company has announced. The job losses come during an incredibly challenging time for the aviation industry following months of plane groundings due to the pandemic.
The news is a huge blow to its site at Broughton in north Wales, where wings are manufactured, and its other factory at Filton in Bristol.
The axe will fall on the commercial aircraft side of the business with 6,000 staff employed at the wing assembly particularly vulnerable.
In addition to the 1,700 UK based jobs, Airbus announced it will shed 13,300 positions across the world. Europe's biggest aerospace group said it would cut some 5,000 posts in France, 5,100 in Germany, 900 in Spain and 1,300 elsewhere for a core
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