Lufthansa likely to cut administrative jobs at its headquarters

Going by the information forwarded by a spokesman of the Cologne-based carrier Deutsche Lufthansa AG, the recession-hit company intends making a notable reduction in its back-office administrative costs over the next three-year period.

Lufthansa said in a Sunday statement that the economic crisis has forced it to look at ways to slash its expenditure in the administration department at its headquarters.
Though a Sunday report in a German daily newspaper, Handelsblatt, said that the carrier would likely cut 15 percent of the jobs in the administration department by 2012; the spokesman, speaking on the condition of anonymity, refused to conform the figures saying that there has been no mention of the proposed lay-offs in the company's plan announced in its last week's employee bulletin.

Noting that Lufthansa, like other airlines worldwide, has been at the receiving end of the blows from lower demand for air travel and rising fuel prices, the spokesman said that the savings planned this time round are distinct from the July-announced proposals which included the elimination of nearly 400 Lufthansa administrative jobs applicable to the passenger division.

Incidentally, as per a staff memo obtained by Reuters in July, Lufthansa planned to slash yearly costs by 1 billion euros by 2011, resorting to a nearly 20 percent cut of the 2,000 administrative jobs in its passenger airline

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