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US airlines make urgent call for new bailout ahead of October 1 job cuts

Major US airlines launched a last-ditch bid to persuade Congress to grant them a new USD25 billion (Sh2.7 trillion) bailout to help avert tens of thousands of employee furloughs set to begin October 1.

The chief executives of American Airlines, United Airlines and JetBlue Airways and major aviation unions held a news conference on Capitol Hill on Tuesday afternoon calling for a six-month extension of a payroll support program that consisted primarily of grants in exchange for keeping workers on the payroll.

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