US EditionLufthansa to Cut 20% of Administrative Staff in Efficiency Drive
Lufthansa aims to save $350 million by 2030 through job cuts and AI-driven efficiency, focusing on administrative roles while excluding frontline staff, to offset a 20% profit drop in 2024.
- Lufthansa plans to cut up to 20 percent of its administrative staff to reduce costs after profits fell nearly a fifth in 2024 due to various issues.
- Approximately 15,000 office staff are employed by Lufthansa, which has a total workforce of around 103,000.
- Shares of Lufthansa increased by over three percent after reports of the job cuts, amid concerns about profitability.
- The Verdi union stated it would not accept drastic cuts and plans to address this in the next round of collective bargaining.
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Lufthansa is cutting 4,000 administrative jobs. This is supposed to reduce costs. A company spokesman explains the situation in Lower Saxony.
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Lufthansa announced on Monday that it plans to cut thousands of workers as it aims to increase profitability and efficiency, in part by relying more heavily on artificial intelligence. The airline group said it will eliminate a total of 4,000 jobs worldwide by 2030, the majority of which will be in Germany—with a focus on administration roles, not operational ones. “The Lufthansa Group is reviewing which activities will no longer be necessary in…
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