Amsterdam — KLM said it would cut an additional 1,000 jobs in 2021 and warned on Thursday that government plans to require all passengers and crew to pass a Covid-19 test before flying to the Netherlands would ground its long-haul flights.

KLM, which already cut 5,000 jobs in 2020, joined other airlines operating in the Netherlands to criticise a proposed requirement for all inbound passengers to show a negative result from a “fast” Covid-19 test taken within four hours of boarding a plane...

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