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Wizz Air axes 1,000 jobs after operating at just 3% of pre-coronavirus capacity

The airline operates at º£½ÇÊÓÆµ airports including London Luton, Liverpool, Bristol, Birmingham and Edinburgh.

Wizz Air

An airline serving various º£½ÇÊÓÆµ airports has today announced it is to make around 1,000 employees redundant.

Wizz Air has announced a sweeping round of redundancies it says will affect almost a fifth of its workforce, after operating at 3% of its "pre-coronavirus capacity".

The airline operates at º£½ÇÊÓÆµ airports including London Luton, Liverpool, Bristol, Birmingham and Edinburgh.

According to Hungary-based Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe the salaries of pilots, cabin crew and office staff will be cut by 14% on average.

The chief executive, the board and senior staff will all take a 22% cut.

Most of Wizz Air's employees are not based in the º£½ÇÊÓÆµ.

The firm said it has also been working with suppliers to reduce rates and improve payment terms. The airline confirmed it will gradually return 32 older leased aircraft by the end of F23 as existing lease contracts expire too.

Wizz Air chief executive József Váradi said: "First and foremost, I would like to thank our people for their tremendous support to passengers and communities across all countries during these unprecedented times.