End Of This Month Airy Rooms Will Be Permanently Closed

Illustration (Photo: Airyrooms.com)

JAKARTA - The COVID-19 pandemic has not ended since it was announced last March. As a result, economic conditions in Indonesia were disrupted. Many companies cut wages until they terminate their employment or lay off their employees.

This response was made because the company's economy was not running normally. In fact, several companies closed their operations. One of them is the budget hotel chain starup Airy Rooms. They will close operations permanently on May 31 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, threatening the entire business sector, especially tourism.

As reported by Tech in Asia, this information is known from Airy's e-mail to its partners. Airy will terminate the cooperation contract with the partner as they plan to permanently close the business.

"We have made our best efforts to deal with the impact of this disaster (COVID-19, red). However, given the significant reduction and reduction in human resources that we currently have, we have decided to stop business permanently," the company was quoted as saying. from Tech In Asia email, Friday 8 May.

Accordingly, after May 31st, Airy will not provide services. "For this reason, after 31 May 2020, we will no longer be able to provide services to all of our partners,"

About Airy at a Glance

As for Airy is a start-up company. This company was founded by Danny Handoko as CEO with his colleague Samsu Sampena as CTO Airy in 2015.

Before starting Airy, both of them had worked at the Traveloka Online Travel Agent company. Airy started its journey as a provider of low budget hotel chains known as Airy Rooms.

In 2017, Airy entered into other businesses by providing cheap airline tickets for holidays to destinations throughout Indonesia. During its five years of existence, Airy has worked with more than 2,000 properties and 35,000 rooms spread across more than 100 cities in Indonesia.

As an Accomodation Network Orchestrator (ANO), Airy Rooms manages thousands of hotel rooms from various selected partners to provide the best service according to the standards set by Airy for each room. But on May 31, everything will be just a story.

Several Companies Affected by COVID-19

Apart from Airy, several companies were also affected by this pandemic. Among them are, Traveloka. The company is rumored to be laying off most of its staff. The information gathered is that at least 100 people or 10 percent of employees will be terminated. This policy has been implemented since last April.

Ramayana. Some time ago, it was rumored that this retail company had made layoffs. This information was confirmed by the Head of the Work Unit of the Ramayana Lestari Workers Union, Sentosa Kurniati.

Then, KFC. This fast food restaurant is also reported to have laid off 450 of its employees in the Java area. But the employees who were dismissed were said to be temporary. And several other companies that have not been listed here.