Lufthansa wants to hire 20,000 employees in Europe

This Monday, the Lufthansa airline group launched a campaign to recruit 20,000 workers in Europe due to the active recovery of air traffic and the shortage of personnel in this sector.

Lufthansa is “taking on 20,000 new employees” across Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Belgium, the group said in a statement.

According to the text, the most in-demand professionals are “technicians, IT professionals, lawyers, pilots and flight attendants.”

Part of the job offer is to create new jobs, and the rest is to replace workers who have left the group, an AFP spokesman said.

Lufthansa had 108,000 employees at the end of September and aims to increase this number to 115,000 by the end of 2023, down from the 138,000 employees the group had at the end of 2019, before the crisis, according to recently released figures. caused by the covid-19 pandemic.

For this job offer, the airline group will launch a communications campaign “in the press, on radio, on the internet and on all social media” to reach candidates.

Like the entire aviation industry, Lufthansa has faced a shortage of staff as many employees left the industry during and after the pandemic.

The German company cut 30,000 jobs between 2020 and 2021 due to the health crisis.

But the group, which owns Austrian, Swiss, Eurowings and Brussels Airlines, is bouncing back thanks to the sharp resumption of air travel seen in recent months and assured in November that “the pandemic is behind us.”

In the second quarter, the company posted a net profit for the first time in more than two years.

In mid-September, the German state sold all of its remaining stakes in Lufthansa after it acquired 20% of the company in 2020 as part of a €9 billion bailout during the health crisis.