Lufthansa’s technology division is closing maintenance centers nationwide. The location at Leipzig / Halle Airport is also affected.
Leipzig / Hamburg – The technology division of Lufthansa closes maintenance centers nationwide. The location at the airport is also affected Leipzig / Halle. The trade union ver.di warns of a deforestation during aircraft maintenance.
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Conclusion: Lufthansa Technik AG is canceling its location at Leipzig / Halle Airport, among other things. © dpa / Maurizio Gambarini
“The aviation crisis makes it necessary to tackle changes, the necessity of which was already apparent before the crisis,” said a Lufthansa Technik AG spokesman when asked about TAG24.
After that, the locations in Leipzig, Bremen, Düsseldorf, Hanover and parts of Hamburg and Frankfurt have no future. A negotiating group had been set up, it said.
A total of 780 of the 1,350 jobs in the maintenance area are directly threatened, explained ver.di secretary Frank Hartstein.
“While the Lufthansa Group is receiving billions in government support during the pandemic to save the company and secure jobs, the subsidiary is now to be closed and downsized on a large scale,” criticized Hartstein and called for the decision to be changed.
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According to the online information service aerotelegraph.de the company had already cut more than 3,000 jobs (12.5 percent) last year.
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