32,000 airline workers to be furloughed as CARES Act provisions expire - Business Insider

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32,000 airline workers to be furloughed as CARES Act provisions expire - Business Insider
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More than 32,000 airline workers are losing their jobs. Here's how they're bracing for unemployment, health coverage amid a pandemic, and whether they'd return to a flailing industry

As they lose their jobs, airline workers have been frustrated by what they see as unfair vitriol directed at airlines and bailouts, despite the effects the pandemic has had on regular workers. While airlines face ire over accepting what has been characterized as "bailout" money for a wealthy industry, unions and workers insist that the CARES Act funding was more akin to a jobs program.

Davenport, like many workers, is especially worried about losing her health insurance during a pandemic. In 2019, the 30-year-old suffered a spontaneous collapsed lung while working a flight from Frankfurt to San Francisco. During a surgery to prevent a reoccurrence, doctors discovered endometriosis developing in a way that could cause further breathing problems.

While cyclical downturns are not unusual for the airline industry, what makes this one especially painful is the fact that the larger economy and job market are so badly affected, too. Many workers plan to tread water as the pandemic drags on, but hope to return to the skies the second the pandemic is over.

 

This is worse then the Great Depression. We have incompetent leadership in DC!

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