February 24, 2021, 8:00 a.m.
The day-to-day maintenance business of “Line Maintenance” is only competitive to a limited extent at most German Lufthansa Technik locations. Even corporate airlines are switching to the competition. Now a third of the jobs should be eliminated – and possibly entire stations should be closed.
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Lufthansa Technik (LHT) is striving to restructure its “Line Maintenance” at several locations in Germany under the economic pressure of the Corona crisis. This emerges from an internal report for the company’s employees, which airliners.de has available. Participants also confirm that the future of the locations in Düsseldorf, Leipzig, Hanover, Stuttgart and Bremen has already been made available for internal events.
According to the report, the heads of the “Fleet Services” department responsible for “Line Maintenance”, Andreas Drosdowski and Alexander Feuersänger, described the continuation of the operation of several stations as not economically justifiable. The economic situation in Bremen, Düsseldorf, Hanover and Leipzig is particularly critical. In Cologne and at the technology headquarters in Hamburg, at least “massive cost reductions” should be achieved.