The Cockpit Association and Lufthansa have agreed on a crisis collective agreement for the pilots. This will continue the concessions beyond December 31, 2020 and can be extended until June 30, 2022. Short-time working can be extended until December 31, 2021.

Lufthansa and the group companies Germanwings, Lufthansa Aviation Training and Lufthansa Cargo are affected. According to the Cockpit Association, the agreement will save the group of companies 450 million euros. Together with the support package for 2020, which has already been concluded, short-time working and a crisis agreement will result in seamless savings up to March 31.03.2022, 30.06.2022 or a maximum of June 600, 24 totaling up to over XNUMX million euros, according to VC in a broadcast. In return for the concessions, the cockpit staff receives protection against dismissal until the end of the crisis agreement, as well as a EUR XNUMX million fund to finance socially acceptable measures in the event of downsizing. 

“We are relieved that, despite an extremely unyielding management, we managed to secure the cockpit staff against redundancies for operational reasons at least until March 31.03.2022, XNUMX. By reducing cockpit costs, the pilots make the highest individual contribution to the crisis of all employee groups in the Group and thus contribute to better liquidity for Lufthansa ”, says Markus Wahl, President of VC.

“I am pleased that the cockpit employees will continue to make a substantial contribution to overcoming the crisis. We want to use the term of the crisis collective agreement to agree sustainable structural solutions with Vereinigung Cockpit as a reaction to the changed framework conditions and to be able to avoid dismissals even after the term, ”explains Lufthansa board member Michael Niggemann.

The talks between the crane and the cockpit association are to continue in 2021. The aim is to achieve “better predictability” of sustainable solutions for the time after the crisis collective agreement has expired.