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Airlines call for extension to furlough scheme to save jobs this winter

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Sign up to FREE email alerts from the Northern Agenda The government should extend furlough support for aviation workers in order to protect jobs over the winter season, airlines are urging UK trade association Airlines UK said members have made pre-tax losses running into billions of pounds and more than 30,000 job cuts have been announced by airlines during the coronavirus pandemic.

In a letter to chancellor Rishi Sunak, the industry body described the impact of the crisis as “devastating”, claiming that the bulk of the £7.2 billion of government support for airlines has “essentially been taken on as new debt". “No sector would be able to continue to accumulate debt in this way for much longer and hope to be able to recover," it said.

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