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The Transport and Workers Union has urged the government to pay 80 per cent of stood down Virgin employees’ wages.
On Wednesday, the Virgin Group announced it was to increase domestic capacity reductions from 50 to 90 per cent, including the immediate suspension of all Tigerair services.
On Thursday, Qantas announced that it would ‘stand down’ a majority of its 30,000 strong workforce, putting 20,000 workers into a state of flux until “at least” the end of May 2020.
Virgin Australia will cut flying in its domestic network by 90 per cent and has followed Qantas in standing down 8000 workers.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced late on Tuesday night that Australia is now banning outright all overseas travel.
Australia’s aviation industry continued its fightback on Tuesday despite states enforcing more stringent border restrictions, and the UK going into effective lockdown.
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