SSP has revealed plans to make 5,000 people redundant thanks to the “unprecedented impact” the coronavirus has had on the travel sector. In a trading update it said it had taken “rapid and decisive management action” in an attempt to “protect our colleagues and customers and to preserve cash and liquidity for the duration of the many government restrictions” worldwide. However, CEO Simon Smith, said despite some “early signs of recovery in some parts of the world” in the UK the “pace of the recovery continues to be slow.