The CEO of Southwest Airways claimed Sunday that it’s protected to fly once more regardless of the continued coronavirus pandemic.
Talking on “Face the Nation” on CBS, Gary Kelly stated the airline had taken excessive measures to make sure passengers could be protected from the COVID-19 virus and that the corporate’s jets have been “as protected as humanly attainable.”
“We’re doing the whole lot attainable to encourage folks to return again and fly,” Kelly instructed Margaret Brennan. “We’re cleansing airplanes, we’re requiring masks of our workers and our clients, we’re utilizing very deep cleansing in a single day, we’re utilizing electrostatic misters which can kill the virus on surfaces for as much as 30 days.”
“We’re exercising social distancing on board the plane,” Kelly stated. “We received’t be reserving airplanes full so that individuals can unfold out. So, completely we’re doing the whole lot we will to make it as protected as humanly attainable.”
Kelly’s remarks come after different main airways, together with Delta, United, American, and JetBlue, introduced that passengers could be required to put on protecting masks on flights and that different security measures towards the coronavirus could be put in place.
The airline trade has been onerous hit by the virus, which has decreased air journey to a naked minimal amid lockdowns and journey restrictions — and Southwest isn't any exception.
Kelly stated practically 400 of the airline’s fleet has been grounded through the lockdown.
“The demand shouldn't be there,” he instructed Brennan. “So, clearly if issues don’t enhance we have now to downsize.”
“We’ve by no means had a furlough in our historical past, we’ve by no means had a pay reduce in our historical past, and I’m terribly pleased with that. We definitely don’t need to break that file. What I had promised our folks is I don’t know what the longer term holds however I do know that we're very effectively ready.”
He stated the final measure for the financially strapped air provider could be involuntary furloughs for the airline’s greater than 60,000 workers.
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