22,000 jobs to be cut - now Lufthansa says which

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From pilots to kitchen helpers: Around every sixth job at Lufthansa is lost. Almost 5000 jobs are affected in the airline's flight operations alone. Around half of the full-time jobs that are on the brink are in Germany.

For the first time, Lufthansa now publically gives details of where the last-mentioned number of 22,000 jobs are to be cut. Incisions are planned practically across the Group. Half of the cuts go to jobs in Germany.

The airline speaks of 22,000 full-time positions. In practice, however, there are also part-time employees. Thus, the total number of people affected should be higher. The Ufo union expects 26,000 people to be affected. Lufthansa currently has around 138,000 full-time and part-time employees. Mathematically, every sixth job would be cut.

The airline's flight operations alone affected almost 5,000 jobs, including 600 pilots, 2,600 flight attendants and 1,500 jobs from ground staff. There is also downsizing in administration, where 1,400 jobs at headquarters and other companies are to be eliminated.

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Lufthansa Technik has around 4,500 jobs too many worldwide, including 2,500 in Germany. The cuts in the catering business are strikingly high, where Lufthansa works for numerous airlines. The LSG Group's 30,000 employees affect 8,300 jobs worldwide, including 1,500 in Germany. Almost every fourth position in airline kitchen helpers would be cut. At the end of 2019, Lufthansa had agreed to sell the LSG European business with around 7,100 employees to the Swiss Gategroup, but sales had stalled.

According to Lufthansa board member Michael Niggemann, according to the current assumptions about the course of business over the next three years at Lufthansa alone, the airline has no prospect of employment for every seventh pilot and every sixth flight attendant. Then he warns: "This excess capacity could even increase if we don't find a way to get through the crisis with competitive personnel costs."

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The aim is to avoid redundancies and to make crisis agreements with the unions and works councils. For example, Eurowings shrank the number of administrative staff by 30 percent or 300 jobs. There are 1,100 jobs too many at Austrian Airlines due to the size of the fleet. Brussels Airlines is expected to cut 1,000 jobs, and 500 jobs at Lufthansa Cargo.

As it is said at Lufthansa, short-time working collective agreements to reduce weekly working hours or other cost-cutting measures could only partially compensate for overcapacity. The board wants to agree on the necessary crisis agreements by June 22.

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Lufthansa CEO Niggemann summarizes the objective in two sentences: “In the greatest crisis in the history of aviation, we want to secure over 100,000 jobs in the Lufthansa Group in the long term despite all the challenges. This requires painful restructuring, which we want to implement as socially acceptable as possible. "

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