{"id":7912,"date":"2020-04-02T04:24:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T09:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=7912"},"modified":"2020-04-02T04:24:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T09:24:43","slug":"south-korea-budget-carrier-eastar-jet-to-lay-off-700-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=7912","title":{"rendered":"South Korea Budget Carrier Eastar Jet to Lay Off 700 Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SEOUL, April 2 (Reuters) &#8211; South Korean budget airline Eastar Jet plans to lay off about 700 out of some 1,600 employees due to operational difficulties from the coronavirus outbreak, the carrier&#8217;s spokesman said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spokesman declined comment on whether it was temporary layoffs, saying that he did not have the details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The budget carrier is also in talks to reduce its fleet, currently consisting of 21 Boeing 737-800s, by 10 planes, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Reporting by Joyce Lee; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"740\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/optimize.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/optimize.jpeg 740w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/optimize-300x199.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean budget airline Eastar Jet plans to lay off about 700 out of some 1,600 employees due to operational difficulties from the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10174,797,4813,7890,89,799,5637,8222,10701,10700,10339,5992,2203,5676,10366,10169,10617,10195,10171,868,10182,1103],"tags":[45,3708,420,160,41,1190,1925,3157,10030,11153,5048,11152,11086,6882,1483,589,11082,3522,2454,5943,11083,412,3132,3598,10162,3247,5405,7597,1288,7627,11154,2451,1993,8476,2579,1691,1658],"class_list":["post-7912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline","category-airline-news","category-airplane-news","category-asia-news","category-aviation-news","category-boeing-news","category-business-news","category-consumer-news","category-coronavirus","category-covid-19","category-e-commerce","category-economic-news","category-finance-news","category-international-news","category-low-cost-carrier","category-news","category-pacifica","category-transport","category-transportation","category-transportation-news","category-travel","category-travel-news","tag-45","tag-800-2","tag-airline","tag-aviation","tag-boeing","tag-budget","tag-carrier","tag-christian","tag-coronavirus","tag-difficulties","tag-due","tag-eastar","tag-editing","tag-employees","tag-fleet","tag-jet","tag-joyce","tag-korea","tag-korean","tag-lay","tag-lee","tag-news","tag-off","tag-operational","tag-outbreak","tag-plans","tag-reduce","tag-reporting","tag-reuters","tag-said","tag-schmollinger","tag-seoul","tag-south","tag-spokesman","tag-talks","tag-transport","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7914,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912\/revisions\/7914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}