The new owner of Virgin Australia has confirmed what the airline’s workers were fearing – thousands of jobs are being permanently axed.
Only 6,000 of the company’s 9,000 staff will be retained if private equity firm Bain Capital gets control of the airline.
Andrew Robertson reports.
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