An airline that serves Edinburgh as well as other UK airports has announced it is to make around 1,000 employees redundant.
Wizz Air, which currently flies to Poland, Hungary and Romania from Edinburgh Airport has said almost a fifth of its workforce will be affected.
The low-cost airline only started operating at Edinburgh in November with four routes connecting Scotland’s capital with the Polish cities of Warsaw and Gdansk, Budapest in Hungary, and Bucharest in Romania.
It announced the sweeping round of redundancies yesterday (Tuesday April 14) after Wizz Air said it was now only operating at three per cent of its "pre-coronavirus capacity".
In total Wizz Air operates seven routes from Scotland to Eastern Europe including services between Aberdeen and Gdansk, and Glasgow to Budapest and Katowice.
The airline operates at UK airports including London Luton, Liverpool, Bristol, Birmingham and Edinburgh.
According to the airline, the salaries of pilots, cabin crew and office staff will also be cut by 14 per cent on average, while the chief executive, the board and senior staff will all take a 22 per cent cut.
Most of Wizz Air's employees are not based in the UK.
The firm said it had also been working with suppliers to reduce rates and improve payment terms.
Wizz Air chief executive József Váradi said: "First and foremost, I would like to thank our people for their tremendous support to passengers and communities across all countries during these unprecedented times.
"They have risen to the challenges facing Wizz Air and the industry with grace and determination, especially when it comes to performing repatriation flights for citizens stranded by Covid-19 across the world and delivering key medical supplies to help our countries, communities of caregivers and their patients."
He also told The Mirror the airline had taken action to "protect the position of the company" and was reviewing all its assets."
"We are also working to further improve our strategic, cost and cash position in the aftermath of this crisis to ensure we can deliver our long-term growth target," he added.
"The company is expecting to deliver significant shareholder value, environmental benefits and employment opportunities in the years to come."
