SEVERAL AIRLINES have returned to the skies as lockdown restrictions and travel bans ease over the summer months. Loganair restarted flights to Birmingham and Newcastle from its main Aberdeen base on June 1,2020. EasyJet was due to resume links on June 15,2020, from ten regional UK airports, Paris/CDG, Geneva, Lisbon and Barcelona. Ryanair and Iberia both plan to fly again from July 2020, the same month as Wizz intends launch the carrier's initial long-haul services, from Budapest and Bucharest to Abu Dhabi, and open routes to 20 destinations from a new base at Milan/Malpensa using five Airbus A321s. In the US, Delta is to expand Latin American and Caribbean services in June from its main hub in Atlanta, while United will restart 40 long-haul routes from July. Meanwhile the toll on commercial job losses continues. Emirates could cut 30,000 staff - around 30% of its workforce - Reuters reported in May, although the carrier had yet to disclose its plans as AIR International went to press, The International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG) plans to remove 12,000 posts and media reports cited 5,100 could go at American Airlines, 3,000 at Ryanair and 3,000 at Virgin Atlantic. On May 28,2020, easylet announced a planned cut to 30% of its workforce - around 4,500 jobs.
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