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Jet2 and Eurostar have announced that they are cancelling in the summer of flights and trains in 2020 and 2021 due to the Corona Virus pandemic.

Eurostar is the cutting of direct services for three French cities due to lack of demand and difficulties in the implementation of protective measures on long journeys.

Separated pilots union Balpa has said that the airline, Jet2, is 102 pilots redundant.

The airline will reduce the flying program for the 2020 and 2021.

Eurostar, said: "As we start our service, We Are focusing our roadmap on our routes between the main cities, which is the highest demand from customers in The Moment , and shorter travel times. "

The Company said its services were operating, with restrictions for the food service, the compulsory wearing of masks, increased hygiene measures and high-frequency cleaning.

these standards But to maintain "difficult to, long-distance".

Eurostar's direct summer services to Lyon, Avignon and Marseille, which were meant, in may, will begin running in 2020 or 2021.

Instead, the rail companies focus on the most important routes between London, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam.

A spokesman from Jet2 said that the airline was to reduce the "complex" challenges associated with the coronavirus Crisis and that "changes on an almost daily basis", and as a result The Need to, its flying program.

"Unfortunately, the General effect of these cuts was The Need to propose A Number of colleagues to layoffs in our company. "

He Said The Company had "full confidence" that you will "Bounce Back from the unprecedented requirements that currently The Company " but they have "difficult decisions in the current climate".

Jet2, the bases at the airports in Leeds, Birmingham, Stansted, Newcastle, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast, is the last airline to issue the formal notice of redundancy and you start a process of consultation with the workers.

In may, Virgin Atlantic announced that it would be slashing More Than 3,000 jobs in the UK through his business and would at the end of its operation at the airport in Gatwick, as a result of the pandemic.

The airline said it had to apply for emergency loans from the government to avoid Collapse .

British Airways has proposed to the 12,000 of the 45,000 employees redundant

And in June, the German airline Lufthansa said it cut would be 22,000 jobs, and to have 100 fewer aircraft, just a few weeks.

Ryanair and EasyJet have also announced that they were cutting between 15-30% of your document, while British Airways , it is proposed that 12,000 of its 45,000 employees are to be dismissed.

'Through The Mill '

Balpa General Secretary Brian Strutton said he was concerned about the "knee-jerk" way in which airlines such as Jet2 had been responded to falling numbers of customers due to the pandemic.

"Many of the pilots whose jobs are on The Line Jet2 have just recently moved there after their jobs lost at Thomas Cook - the pilots have been through The Mill already," He Said .

Mr Strutton said Jet2 played an "extremely important role" at the airports in The North of the UK, and it was not important, that it will break together:

"again, I repeat, to withdraw my call for the government to call for a reduction of the moratorium, and working on a strategic support-help package, this industry get through this Crisis . "

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Source of news: bbc.com