Swiss wants to create a total of 1,500 new jobs by 2023. In addition to 80 pilots and 1,000 flight attendants, it is looking for hundreds of new employees on the ground. When asked by Blick, Swiss did not want to specify exactly which areas.
Just this year, the airline added 800 new cabin crew positions and hired hundreds of new ground workers. Overall, the Lufthansa Group took several thousand people on board this year.
This is after many jobs were cut during the Corona crisis. Swiss laid off 500 jobs. Much, as it later turned out: last summer, Switzerland struggled with a severe staff shortage that led to hundreds of flight cancellations.
High demand for Corona
Lufthansa Group plans to hire 20,000 new staff next year, according to a company-wide announcement in Frankfurt. According to Lufthansa, there are job offers in more than 45 professions. We are primarily looking for technicians, IT specialists, lawyers, pilots and flight attendants.
“We clearly show that the Lufthansa Group is looking forward to the future,” said Michael Niggemann, Head of Human Resources at Lufthansa, at the start of a nationwide campaign where the group recruited new employees. “To be at the top of the industry, we need dedicated and motivated employees for a variety of tasks and challenges,” said Niggemann.
Lufthansa Group had 107,000 employees at the end of September. CEO Carsten Spohr (55) recently addressed the strong demand after the Corona crisis and announced that by the end of 2023 around 20,000 new employees will be hired across the group. Also at the beginning of September, Spohr said billions of dollars of investment are planned in new aircraft, equipment and IT. (SDA/kae)