Air transport
Report: Lufthansa Airlines is cutting 400 administrative jobs
Lufthansa is becoming more and more like the VW Group: While the nimble subsidiaries earn good money, the sedate mother is running up big losses. That should change.
According to a report, the Lufthansa Group wants to cut one in five administrative jobs at its inefficient core company. According to the board’s plans for fluctuation and automation, around 400 jobs should be eliminated, writes “Manager Magazin”.
The group had already announced a comprehensive savings program for the core brand with the crane on the tail in the summer and fleshed it out in the fall. While the other group companies such as Swiss, Austrian, Eurowings, Brussels and Lufthansa Technik were largely on schedule, the core company Lufthansa’s costs and revenues diverged. In the current year it is unlikely to generate any operating profit; the aim is to achieve a black zero. The savings program is expected to improve operating profits by 2.5 billion euros by 2028.
According to the report, savings should also be made in purchasing and increased efforts will be made to attract business travelers, only 60 percent of whom returned to the planes after Corona. During operation, longer transfer times and a larger jet reserve should ensure more stability. The work of the approximately 400 flight controllers in Frankfurt and Munich could be improved in the future through the use of artificial intelligence. Crew planning should also be reorganized.
The company did not initially comment on the report.
dpa
Source: Stern
