Up to 4,000 jobs are planning to abolish Lufthansa, in an effort to cut its administrative expenses by 20%, the Handelsblatt newspaper and Bavarian broadcasting BR, cited by the company, which has not yet announced its intentions.

According to Handelsblatt, CEO Karsten Sports said yesterday at an internal meeting of executives that “we must reduce our administrative expenses by 20%”. As the financial newspaper points out, they may be affected by a3,000 to 4,000 of the 15,000 administrative employees of the company. For its part, the Airline Management assured that the reductions would be made “largely in a socially responsible way”.

Official announcements are expected on Monday, on the Lufthansa Stock Exchange, where Mr Sports will present the new medium -term goals of the administration.

Lufthansa had already cut 20,000 jobs during the coronary pandemic and a few weeks ago announced that it was merging basic functions of the Group’s airlines. Indicatively, from January 2026, the management of short and medium -distance flights by Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian and Brussels will be centrally consolidated, and IT operations will be united. In addition, deadlocked collective bargaining negotiations on the cabin crew and the Lufthansa pilots are currently underway.

The Group, however, has announced that the operating profits of specific data are expected to exceed 1.6 billion euros in 2024.