British Airways offers pay deal to flight attendents

LONDON - British Airways offers to avoid mass layoffs in its cabins, if flight attendants accept pay cuts to 80 percent of base salaries.

"Soft landing" into a new normal after corona: British Airways proposes cuts to base and variable salaries to avoid job losses among flight attendents, according to a letter to employees, first reported by "Bloomberg".

The airline drew criticism after threatening to cut up to 12,000 jobs - a third of its payroll - amit Covid-19 crisis.