pune sources from the travel agents association of india taai on wednesday said that many travel companies are asking their employees to leave their job work on 50 of their salaries take long leave without pay among other things they said that as per rough estimates around 250500 people from travel firms may lose their jobs in pune after the losses witnessed in travel firms due to the impact of covid19a top source from taai told toi that many travel companies are considering various steps to reduce costs like asking thier employees to leave their jobs to work on 50 of their salaries to take long leave without pay take leave for short time without pay or work from home with or without paythis is a very bad time for travel companies and their employees are worse off as they do not know what will happen to them anything between 250 to 500 employees in pune travel firms may loose their jobs and around 25000 to 35000 in travel firms all over india as per our rough estimates the source saidmehboob shaikh director travel elect pvt ltd a citybased travel firm said travel firms should try and save their employees they must not retrench them and work out a middle path the employees have worked for us in our good times and they are the ones who will again work for us when good times come back many of them have major family responsibilities like emis childrens school fees medical expenses and thus their lot should be given a thoughtbahram p zadeh chairman taai pune chapter meanwhile said taai has already appealed to the ministry of civil aviation dgca iata all airlines and other stakeholders to consider the situation on humanitarian grounds and pass on necessary instructions for date change waivers as well as cancellation policies on compassionate grounds the association and its members request travellers to be patient acting as agents of airlines and other stakeholders it is beyond our limitations to offer waivers without approval from principals the airlines hotels and other stakeholders we are awaiting a review from the government and other stakeholders on reconsidering their policies of refunds and cancellation charges