Westair retrenches 60 due to COVID-19

Contributed by NAMPA.

By Edward Mumbuu Jnr
WINDHOEK, 25 MAR (NAMPA) – Barely nine months after Westair Aviation was given the greenlight to become a scheduled passenger airline in Namibia, it is sending 60 employees home due to the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19).
The pandemic has been wreaking havoc on the aviation industry across the globe.
Impeccable sources at the airline who preferred anonymity disclosed the information to Nampa.
“Westair is retrenching 60 employees. That means that one in eve ...