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Meanwhile, of the 5,500 full-time cabin employees, about 1,000 employees have left through voluntary departure schemes and 200 people have already been able to go to KLC, according to the cabin association. In the new year, it will be finally known how many cabin employees can keep a job after a passing on.

There will probably still be some personnel left who will still have to leave, the union thinks, but “most of that has now been removed”, says VNC director Chris van Elswijk.

The union previously made agreements with KLM that if the airline needed personnel for the cheaper branch KLC, KLM cabin employees would be seconded there for a period of 1 to 3 years. Agreements had also been made that redundant staff would receive longer guidance to new work than previously agreed and KLM staff offered a better minimum allowance for people who had been employed for a relatively short period of time.

About a third of the 33,000 KLM employees are cabin crew. In July, the airline announced that 4500 to 5000 jobs would be lost due to the reorganization due to the corona crisis. KLM also did not rule out further job losses.

In November, all aviation unions agreed on the conditions associated with the 3.4 billion euros in crisis support from the government for the airline. KLM must moderate wages during the term of the aid, until 2025, and costs must be structurally reduced by 15 percent.

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