Qatar Airways to slash nearly 20% of its workforce - CEO
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar Airways, one of the Middle East's biggest carriers, will lay off close to 20% of its workforce after the coronavirus pandemic decimated travel demand, its chief executive has told the BBC."Unfortunately, we will have to cut nearly 20% of our workforce," Akbar al-Baker said in a television interview posted by a BBC reporter on Twitter on Wednesday. Baker said it was a "very hard decision" but that the state-owned airline had "no other alternative". Reuters reported on May..