Air France: Trim about 3,000 jobs
The Air France confirmed today in hot climate plans for downsizing of its activities that could lead to the loss of about 3,000 jobs in depth two years after the failure of negotiations with the pilots of the company, told AFP.
Four unions of workers were announced today strike and several hundred workers stopped the morning the meeting at which the administration announced its plans for the social partners, according to reporter of the French News Agency.
The protesters demanded the resignation of the head of the group Air France / KLM, Alexandre de Zouniak, causing the sudden departure of CEO of the French company Frederic Ghazi, told representatives of the workers.
According to sources cited by AFP, the new restructuring plan provides for the elimination of redundancy, with the administration to estimate their number to 2,900 in 2016 and 2017.
Job cuts relate to 300 pilots, 900 flight attendants and 1,700 ground staff. For the first time in the history of the company provided workers forced retirements.
The plan includes a reduction in trips to the long-distance network, where half lines are harmful: the fleet -which currently has 107 aeroskafi- expected to decline by 14 aircraft, five next year and another nine in 2017, according to the administration.
The Air France also plans to reduce the frequency of its flights to more than 20 lines in 2016 and end the next year the association with five destinations in India and Southeast Asia, according to sources.
The directors of Air France-KLM gave the green light to this project Thursday after the failure of negotiations with pilots for new productivity measures.
The administration had asked the air crews to fly above one hundred hours a year without pay increases and have no days off, a scenario that is unanimously rejected the unions.
The French socialist government has intensified in recent days calls for "accountability" and "effort" on the part of pilots. The French government this year strengthened its participation in the share capital of Air France-KLM, which owns 17.6%.
The Air France already in recent years it cut costs and staff (5,500 retirements from 2012 to the end of 2014) was expected to enable it to return to profitability in 2015. However, the company remains trapped to competition from low-companies costs in Europe and the Gulf of major flight companies. The group Air France / KLM is the second largest European airline after German Lufthansa.
The Air France confirmed today in hot climate plans for downsizing of its activities that could lead to the loss of about 3,000 jobs in depth two years after the failure of negotiations with the pilots of the company, told AFP.
Four unions of workers were announced today strike and several hundred workers stopped the morning the meeting at which the administration announced its plans for the social partners, according to reporter of the French News Agency.
The protesters demanded the resignation of the head of the group Air France / KLM, Alexandre de Zouniak, causing the sudden departure of CEO of the French company Frederic Ghazi, told representatives of the workers.
According to sources cited by AFP, the new restructuring plan provides for the elimination of redundancy, with the administration to estimate their number to 2,900 in 2016 and 2017.
Job cuts relate to 300 pilots, 900 flight attendants and 1,700 ground staff. For the first time in the history of the company provided workers forced retirements.
The plan includes a reduction in trips to the long-distance network, where half lines are harmful: the fleet -which currently has 107 aeroskafi- expected to decline by 14 aircraft, five next year and another nine in 2017, according to the administration.
The Air France also plans to reduce the frequency of its flights to more than 20 lines in 2016 and end the next year the association with five destinations in India and Southeast Asia, according to sources.
The directors of Air France-KLM gave the green light to this project Thursday after the failure of negotiations with pilots for new productivity measures.
The administration had asked the air crews to fly above one hundred hours a year without pay increases and have no days off, a scenario that is unanimously rejected the unions.
The French socialist government has intensified in recent days calls for "accountability" and "effort" on the part of pilots. The French government this year strengthened its participation in the share capital of Air France-KLM, which owns 17.6%.
The Air France already in recent years it cut costs and staff (5,500 retirements from 2012 to the end of 2014) was expected to enable it to return to profitability in 2015. However, the company remains trapped to competition from low-companies costs in Europe and the Gulf of major flight companies. The group Air France / KLM is the second largest European airline after German Lufthansa.
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