Gatwick airport is planning to cut 600 jobs, about a quarter of its workforce, as it struggles to cut costs amid the pandemic’s continuing impact on international travel. The airport is beginning a consultation process with affected employees from all areas of the business, as part of a wider restructuring plan. Flights are only operating from one of its two terminals, because of what the airport called the “devastating impact” of Covid-19 on aviation and the travel industry. Stewart Wingate, Gatwick airport’s chief executive, said it would try to preserve as many jobs as possible. Ethnicity was not a factor in our selection process as this would be both discriminatory against other groups and unlawful.”

Source: The Guardian August 26, 2020 16:53 UTC