Lufthansa threatens 1,000 pilots with termination again

Lufthansa boss Carsten Spohr again threatens to lay off pilots in the spring. “In the absence of an agreement, it will probably be the first time in the history of our company in the second quarter of 2021 that 500 captains and 500 first officers will have to leave”, Spohr told Wirtschaftswoche. That would be a fifth of the roughly 5,000 pilots in the Lufthansa core company.

It can hardly be explained that no solution is foreseeable, said Spohr with a view to the pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC), with which a far-reaching agreement on cuts in the pandemic is pending. It was “of all things the group of employees with the highest collective wages,” said Spohr. In the other employment groups, the agreed protection against dismissal applies.

Lufthansa, shaken by the coronavirus crisis, has agreed on cuts with the flight attendant union UFO and ver.di. VC and Lufthansa have so far only agreed on a short-term restructuring collective agreement for this year, which, according to the union, has saved around 150 million euros. For example, increases in short-time working allowances, subsidies for company pensions and a wage increase have been canceled.

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