MONTREAL - After being laid off from her job as a flight attendant for Air Transat in April, Jennifer Yurchuk, who has 29 years of experience on the job, found work as a courier for FedEx while living off of her savings until her airline calls her back to work, if it ever does.
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Laid-off airline workers mull post-COVID job options as industry languishes
by Jon Victor, The Canadian Press
Posted Mar 16, 2021 3:40 pm EDT
Last Updated Mar 16, 2021 at 3:44 pm EDT
MONTREAL After being laid off from her job as a flight attendant for Air Transat in April, Jennifer Yurchuk, who has 29 years of experience on the job, found work as a courier for FedEx while living off of her savings until her airline calls her back to work, if it ever does.
“I used to go to Paris and have dinner,” Yurchuk said. “Now I’m frizzy-haired, delivering these Aritzia packages.”
One year after the federal government instituted its first COVID-19 related travel restrictions which kicked off a precipitous drop in airline revenues flight attendants like Yurchuk have borne the brunt of the economic pain, along with thousands of pilots, groundcrew and technicians in Canada.
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