LATAM Airlines Tuesday said it had laid off 12,600 employees since March - or almost 30% of its pre-coronavirus workforce - due to the pandemic that has upended the global travel industry. The carrier went from employing almost 43,000 people across Latin America and the US to 29,957 as of Tuesday, the company said. LATAM reported a net loss of $890m for Q2, slammed by the pandemic that drove the company into a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in May. “COVID-19 has had a very significant impact, which is reflected in the company’s numbers,” LATAM CFO Ramiro Alfonsin told journalists. While employees already had their salaries cut by half in late March when the pandemic led to widespread travel restrictions in the region, it said its remaining employees are now facing cuts of 20% through September.<br/>