In these times of crisis, everyone at AUA pulls together. Almost all. Because while former flight attendants and pilots the pension entitlement will be reduced by 2021 percent from the beginning of 15, former board members and managers are standing opposite. You don't want to endure any cuts.

Due to the state aid and the savings package for the active workforce, which provides for a salary reduction of up to 20 percent, even former employees have to do without. Since these pensions are based on an old collective agreement, the social partners could easily intervene here and stipulate the cutbacks. With the ex-board members, things are very different. These all have individual contracts, a unilateral change without the involvement of the contract partner seems almost impossible.

And that's how it is: In this case, the AUA can only watch how several thousand euros flow into the coffers of the former executives a month despite the Corona crisis. In the background they are therefore working “on a legal solution, which is admittedly not easy,” said Alexis von Hoensbroech at a press conference. And Austrian Airlines cannot cope with this problem alone. Compared to the Courier Magnus Brunner, ÖVP State Secretary responsible for the Ministry of Transport and Climate, confirms: “The company approached the government with a request for support.” The legislature will also be concerned with solving this problem. Otherwise, a significant part of the state aid goes into paying out the disputed benefit pensions.