At the end of last week, Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr publicly stated that it would be possible to compensate for a pilot overhang assumed by Lufthansa by establishing “innovative part-time models”. The Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) welcomes Mr. Spohr's request and will make a corresponding offer for innovative part-time models in today's negotiation round.

The cockpit staff has contributed to the financial relief of the company in the amount of 2020 million euros through the collective agreement of the first-time introduction of short-time work at Lufthansa since April 155. Of this amount, 70 million euros have been made available by the pilot since September without any consideration. In addition to these financial concessions, the VC, in cooperation with the staff representatives, has agreed, among other things, to carry out numerous flights that otherwise could not have been carried out due to restrictions under collective law. These and other operational exceptions led to substantial savings and a significantly reduced outflow of funds at Lufthansa in the year to come.

“So far, Lufthansa has shown itself to be closed to the treatment of socially acceptable job cuts through part-time work, special leave or early retirement. We are all the more pleased about Mr. Spohr's offer to solve the problem of the currently forecast overhang by means of innovative part-time models ”, said Marcel Gröls, Chairman of the VC's collective bargaining policy.