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Airlines Apply For Relief Payments Amid Coronavirus Slowdown

In return for a share of billions of dollars, the companies must say how they expect to pay it back and not lay off workers through Sept. 30, among other restrictions.
Delta and the other major airlines are applying for federal relief payments to help them get through the slowdown caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

It appears most, if not all of the nation's major airlines have applied for a share of $50 billion in federal coronavirus aid.

Delta, American, United, Southwest and JetBlue, among others, met a 5 p.m. ET deadline to apply to the Treasury

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