Layoffs loom if payroll aid is not extended, Southwest Airlines CEO warns
“A clean extension of the payroll support program would buy us six critical months to see our way through to the other side of the pandemic,” Kelly said in a video message https://bit.ly/33nmDqd on twitter. U.S. airlines have been pleading for another $25 billion in payroll support to protect jobs for another six months after the last package, which banned furloughs, expired at midnight.