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Ryanair could cut up to 3,000 jobs, slash pay and even close airports

The budget airline has announced a restructuring plan to cope in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic

Ryanair

Ryanair is to cut up to 3,000 jobs as the aviation sector continues to be battered by the coronavirus crisis.

The budget airline group announced that a restructuring programme would see pilots and cabin crew laid off.

It could also involve unpaid leave and pay being slashed by up to 20%.

There are also proposals for the closure of "a number of aircraft bases across Europe" until demand for air travel recovers.

This comes days after British Airways announced plans for 12,000 redundancies.

Chief executive Michael O'Leary, whose pay was cut by 50% for April and May, has agreed to extend the reduction for the remainder of the financial year to March 2021.

Ryanair said its flights will remain grounded until "at least July" and passenger numbers will not return to 2019 levels "until summer 2022 at the earliest".

A Ryanair Boeing 737 in flight

It expects to operate fewer than 1% of its scheduled flights between April and June, and carry no more than half of its original target of 44.6 million passengers between July and September.