Flight Centre CEO Graham Turner has said job losses would be "inevitable" in the current environment.Credit:Attila Csaszar
Urgent discussions with landlords,suppliers,banks,vendors and insurers will be held to help the company manage the"precipitous drop"in near-term travel activity.
The business has also asked the federal government for an assistance package in light of the recent $715 million airline bailout announced yesterday.
"The conditions that our industry is facing are unprecedented and have clearly arisen as a result of the coronavirus and the initiatives that are being implemented to slow its spread,"chief executive Graham Turner said.
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"Management is determined to overcome the significant challenges that it currently faces and,with the support of our stakeholders,is ready to prosper when conditions eventually normalise."
On Friday,the company announced it would shut 100 of its stores amid the coronavirus outbreak and suspended its full-year profit guidance. Recruitment was also frozen,and non-essential projects deferred.
At the time,the company said it was confident the only job cuts would be in head office roles,but today it walked back on that assurance,saying while it hopes to preserve as many roles as possible,job losses"across the industry and within the company"were inevitable.