Thousands of new jobs are set to open up at Lufthansa Group throughout 2025, including hundreds at Belgium’s flag carrier, Brussels Airlines, the firm has announced.
Flight crew, technical staff, ground staff and pilots
Around 10,000 posts will be advertised during the year by the Cologne-headquartered global aviation group, which comprises a stable of passenger airlines such as Austrian Airlines and Swiss, as well as an aviation services segment that offers systems, training, logistics, maintenance, repairs and operational support through subsidiaries such as Lufthansa Technik.
The recruitment drive will increase the firm’s 100,000-strong workforce across 90 countries by about 10%. That influx of new people will help to fill a variety of vacancies, including for 2,000 stewards and stewardesses, around 2,000 technical staff at Lufthansa Technik, around 1,400 ground staff, and 800 pilots, a press release said.
Austrian Airlines and Eurowings are each looking for around 700 employees, the group noted, but perhaps controversially, over half the new jobs will be created in Germany, though Lufthansa as an airline has itself cut back the numbers it is seeking to take on, due to cost-saving moves under its so-called “Turnaround” efficiency program. It is only recruiting 1,200 people focusing on the “operational area”, it has confirmed.
New routes and planes mean new jobs
Meanwhile, through the group hiring, Brussels Airlines is set to gain 360 new staff, meaning it will add just over 10% to its current employee numbers. The recruits are sorely needed thanks to an expansion in the carrier’s operations, spokesperson Nico Cardone has confirmed. That included in mid-2024, a new six times weekly route to Nairobi, joining the airline’s 23 other African destinations. The growth is manifesting itself in new long-haul routes, and new planes coming into service, which requires new people, Cardone said.
More than 50% of the successful candidates will fulfill flight attendant roles, he added, while over 60 airport staff are also needed, plus 50 pilots, 45 maintenance staff and 20 back office workers.
“An attractive employer”
The Covid-19 pandemic and resulting travel lockdowns led to mass laying offs in the aviation sector, causing a loss of expertise and person-power that airlines, airports and air traffic control agencies have struggled to recover from. The issue has even prompted safety investigations in the USA.
“The Lufthansa Group is and remains an attractive employer with many different job profiles and career options. 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,” said Michael Niggemann, Member of the Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG and responsible for Human Resources & Legal Affairs.
The latest recruitment drive of 10,000 from Lufthansa Group follows a hiring round in 2023 that saw 13,000 people taken on across its employee base, which has increased by 30,000 over the last three years, the Group says.
