The largest portion of planned hires will be flight attendants and maintenance employees.
A Lufthansa A320neo in Oslo (Photo: AirlineGeeks | William Derrickson)
Lufthansa Group has set a goal of recruiting around 10,000 new employees across various professions this year.
According to a news release from the parent company of German carrier Lufthansa Airlines, that number includes over 2,000 flight attendants, more than 1,400 ground staff, and around 1,300 technical experts. The company is also looking to hire 1,200 administrative workers and 800 pilots with more than half of all recruitment to take place in Germany.
The release stated that over 2,000 employees are to start at Lufthansa Technik – the group’s maintenance, repair, and overhaul division. Lufthansa Group subsidiaries Austrian Airlines and Eurowings will each look to hire around 700 employees.
Lufthansa Airlines expects to hire fewer employees in 2025 than in 2024 and plans to recruit around 1,200 people with a focus on operations by the end of the year. These hiring plans come after the airline axed routes in the U.S. and China due to aircraft delivery shortages from Boeing last fall.
The carrier will continue to implement its “Turnaround program” with the aim of increasing efficiency and improving product quality in 2025.
“The Lufthansa Group is and remains an attractive employer with many different job profiles and career options,” said Michael Niggemann, chief human resources officer at Deutsche Lufthansa AG. “Last year alone, we received 350,000 applications across the Group and recruited over 13,000 employees. We look forward to welcoming every new colleague.”
The Lufthansa Group currently employs over 100,000 people in over 90 countries, and it has recruited more than 30,000 new workers over the past three years. In October 2024, Lufthansa Group reported $11 billion in revenue – its strongest revenue quarter in company history.
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