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Lufthansa is also using the billion-dollar government loan to significantly increase its pilot short-time work allowance.
CEO Carsten Spohr confirmed to WELT AM SONNTAG that, for example, the monthly short-time allowance for ex-A380 captains will be increased from around 5,000 to up to 15,000 euros.
With the pure short-time work allowance, the “basic monthly pay would otherwise be more than halved” because a large part of the salary is above the income threshold.
“We cannot and do not want to expect our pilots to do that,” said Spohr.
After the business slump in the Corona crisis, the airline had received a nine billion euro government loan from Germany in order to keep operations going.
Because the recovery in air traffic is slower than initially planned, the group increased the cuts over the course of the year.
"In December we had less than ten percent of the passengers compared to the previous year," said Spohr.
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“Among other things, 29,000 employees will have left us by the end of this year, so unfortunately every fifth Lufthansa employee,” said the airline boss.
The goal is to keep 100,000 employees at Lufthansa.
“But that cannot be full-time jobs in all areas.
We just have to distribute the work differently, ”said Spohr.
Therefore, beyond 2021, the group will probably need “structural cost savings and part-time models” by the middle of the decade, which is currently being discussed with the unions.
An agreement has now been reached with the approximately 5,000 pilots that they will be protected from redundancies for operational reasons until the end of March 2022.
The airline and the pilots' union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) agreed on a crisis collective agreement.
In return, Lufthansa can extend short-time working until the end of next year, cut working hours with corresponding wage cuts and suspend wage increases.
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Source: WELT AM SONNTAG