Klagenfurt Airport has to look around for new ground handling personnel because the 18 AUA employees who should have switched to the airport subsidiary Avisafe did not want to do so.

The contract between Klagenfurt Airport and Austrian Airlines for ground services expired at the end of the year. The airport is now providing the services itself and has founded the subsidiary Avisafe for this purpose. The AUA and the airport had negotiated that the 18 AIrline employees by Change of employer can. But they didn't want that: 17 decided to accept the social plan and one AUA employee took advantage of a transfer to Vienna. As a result, zero AUA employees were transferred to the KLU subsidiary with the transfer of operations.

Those affected did not provide any information about the motivation to exchange the workplace for a social plan. Austrian Airlines spokeswoman Tanja Gruber confirmed to Aviation Direct: “The 18 Austrian Airlines employees in Klagenfurt could choose between a transfer of operations to Klagenfurt Airport and a social package. Apart from one employee, all colleagues have opted for the voluntary social package. "