With the coronavirus infection-19 (Corona 19) incident, the airline industry was hit hard, and Asiana Airlines decided to tighten the waistband by increasing unpaid leave next month, operating only as half of the workforce and returning the salary of executives by 60%. .

Asiana Airlines announced today (24th) that it will carry out special measures to survive in April following March.

As a result, all employees enter unpaid leave for at least 15 days in April.

This is a stronger step than last month, when all employees took unpaid leave for at least 10 days.

The executives decided to return an additional 10% of the salary for a total of 60%.

In addition, the crew of the A380 (six), which had ceased operations on the 16th, entered a paid leave as part of a job retention plan.

Currently, the international passenger route to Corona 19 has been reduced by 85% based on the seat availability, and the reservation rate in April has been reduced by 90% compared to the previous year.

An official from Asiana Airlines said, “At least 70% of the idle workforce has occurred, and inevitably, we have taken special measures to expand unemployment leave.” We can guarantee how long the emergency management system will continue to overcome the crisis in the future. "No situation."

Earlier, Asiana Airlines declared emergency management last month, and submitted measures for all executives to submit resignations, and to return the salaries of executives and managers (40% for the president, 30% for the executives, and 20% for the directors).

In March, we expanded this further and returned salaries of 100% for the president, 50% for the executives and 30% for the head of the organization.

Asiana Airlines explained that it is focusing on company-wide capabilities to minimize the loss caused by Corona 19 and to make it a new leap forward.

Accordingly, we are actively targeting increased international cargo demand due to the decrease in the supply of passenger planes.

Currently, 14 cargo planes (12 self-propelled aircraft, 2 external leased cargo planes) are being operated flexibly through thorough demand analysis.

From the 18th, Belly Cargo, which is carrying cargo using passenger planes on the routes between Ho Chi Minh and Taipei, has been operating, and additional routes are under consideration.

Also, on the 13th, we operated a charter to transport 186 Samsung Display engineers from Incheon to Vietnam at Dondon Airport, and on the 19th, we are striving to minimize losses through chartered business, such as transporting overseas Koreans residing in Iran to Korea.

In addition, this crisis is used as an opportunity to strengthen aircraft maintenance and is spurring regular aircraft maintenance.

As it is expected that more than 50 out of 72 Asiana airlines will be delivered next month, we are preparing for a recovery in demand after the end of Corona 19 by accelerating the existing maintenance schedule.

In fact, he said that the maintenance work of the aircraft this month was 16.7% earlier than planned.

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