Vienna: Lauda removes 94 flying employees
The airline Lauda announced on Thursday evening that the 12 pilots and 82 flight attendants who did not consent to the new collective agreement would be dismissed. According to managing director Andreas Gruber, there will be no layoffs among the flying staff in summer 2020 beyond these 94 people. As reported, Ryanair will no longer let the airline Lauda fly on its own account under OE flight numbers, but in the meantime almost all connections have been switched to the FR code. Lauda will then act as a wet lease provider for its sister company Ryanair DAC on many routes. Lauda boss Andreas Gruber said that this change would have commercial advantages for Lauda. The Lauda fleet will settle at 30 Airbus A320s. This was originally supposed to be increased to 38 aircraft this year. In Vienna, ten A320s will be operated on behalf of Ryanair DAC. In the original plan before the Corona crisis, 16 A320s would have been flown on the airline's own account and an additional three Boeing 737-800s from Ryanair would have been wet-leased. All planned acquisitions of further Airbus A320s have not taken place due to the effects of the Corona pandemic. Existing contracts are to be renegotiated. In the future, Lauda will be positioned as a pure wet-lease operator. This means that the carrier will no longer operate flights on its own account under the OE code, but will fly on behalf of other airlines. These are naturally sister companies within the Ryanair Group, which, in addition to Lauda, includes Ryanair DAC (= operating airline Ryanair), Malta Air, Buzz and Ryanair UK. The parent company is the listed Ryanair Holdings plc. For passengers, this means in concrete terms that in the future they will be formally