The Air France group will cut 7,580 jobs at Air France and Hop !, management said on Friday. 

The management of the Air France group announced Monday that it wants to cut 7,580 jobs in the company Air France and the regional subsidiary Hop! by the end of 2022 to "deal with the Covid-19 crisis which is hitting the group hard".

It plans to cut 6,560 jobs out of 41,000 (full-time equivalent permanent contracts) in the French company and 1,020 jobs out of 2,420 at Hop !, she said in a press release after meetings with representatives of the staff of the two companies, confirming information obtained Tuesday from union sources by AFP.

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