Absent vaccine, airline industry may be gutted for years

U.S. airlines employ about 750,000 people directly, according to trade group Airlines for America.

The CARES Act included $58 billion for the Treasury Department to issue grants and loans to passenger and cargo airlines. Half of the money was dedicated to helping airlines continue to pay their workers, and that aid comes with the stipulation that carriers don’t furlough employees through the end of September.

But Nelson pushed back on that, saying she believes “it’s possible, that if we’re in an emergency state again, that Congress will act again to keep people in their jobs.”

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