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Vereinigung Cockpit: “Easyjet must not allow Berlin to continue to bleed dry”

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On Tuesday it was announced that the low-cost airline Easyjet will further reduce its Berlin-Brandenburg base and that numerous jobs will also be closed. This annoys the pilots' union Vereinigung Cockpit.

The management of the low coster is currently planning in the German capital to cut up to 275 jobs. From internal sources, which have not been officially commented on or confirmed, it can even be heard that even more employees have to fear for their jobs. Easyjet became the largest provider in Berlin by taking over numerous aircraft from routes from the insolvency estate of Air Berlin.

The Cockpit Association is of the opinion that since then Easyjet has “regularly caused uncertainty among employees with cuts”. Now it is being demanded that employees should “finally be given more security and long-term perspectives”.

Marcel Gröls, Chairman of Collective Bargaining Policy at the Cockpit Association, said: "The company must now live up to its social responsibility. After the workforce has already had to cope with so many cuts in recent years, Easyjet must not allow the Berlin site to bleed dry even further."

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  • YankeeZulu1, 27. May 2022 @ 13: 21

    Even if Mr Gröls doesn't like it, Easyjet will simply do the economics and withdraw aircraft and (as a logical consequence) cut staff. That is a special feature of the LCC. At the same time, BER cannot work with fees that do not cover costs. And if other airports, particularly in Germany, were prepared to do the same, the whole problem would not exist: flight prices would have to rise accordingly, no one would have to discuss "loss-making district runways" as much as before, and the denunciation of "2-euro-fifty" flights would also decrease.

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