The Air France group plans measures to adapt its workforce to the COVID-19 crisis
July 03 2020 - 1:46PM
The Air France group plans measures to adapt its workforce to the
COVID-19 crisis
PRESS RELEASE
Roissy, 3 July 2020
The Air France group plans
measures to adapt its workforce to the COVID-19 crisis
Air France and HOP! today presented the staff
representatives with their strategic orientations and the prospects
for adapting the workforce following the COVID-19 crisis which has
hit the Group hard.
For three months, Air France's activity and
revenue fell by 95%, and at the height of the crisis, the airline
was losing 15 million euros per day. Recovery looks set to be very
slow due to the uncertainties regarding the health situation, the
lifting of travel restrictions and changing commercial demand. In
this way, even on the basis of ambitious recovery assumptions, Air
France predicts that it will not see the same level of activity as
in 2019 before 2024.
The support of the French State, in the form of
guaranteed loans amounting to 7 billion euros, will enable the
Group to withstand the crisis in the short term and is accompanied
by strong commitments to ensure its sustainability. Air France must
accelerate its transformation to regain its competitiveness and
strengthen its leading position in terms of sustainable
transition.
In the context of such a lasting decline in
activity, the Air France Group must act with lucidity and
responsibility. Its transformation is mainly based on changing its
domestic business model, reorganizing its support functions and
continuing to reduce its external and internal costs.
For Air France, predictions of staff
requirements show a reduction of 6,560 jobs by the end of 2022 out
of a current total of 41,000. The many natural departures
expected over this period (more than 3,500) will make it possible
to compensate more than half of these job reductions thanks to a
favourable age pyramid.
For HOP! the resizing of activity and the
restructuring of the company linked in particular to the
simplification of the fleet will lead to a reduction of 1,020 jobs
over the next three years out of the current 2,420. Taking into
account the estimated number of natural departures, the
overstaffing figure remains at around 820 at the end of 2022.
Air France and HOP! are working together with
the unions to implement plans that give priority to voluntary
departures, early retirement arrangements and professional and
geographical mobility. Solidarity within the Air France Group will
also be implemented with proposals for internal job offers to all
employees whose position will no longer exist and who do not wish
to be included in the departure plan.
Air France and HOP! will conduct these processes
in a spirit of dialogue, and with responsibility and transparency
around the challenges of rebuilding the Air France Group.
This reconstruction plan will be presented at
the end of July, together with the plan for the Air France-KLM
Group.
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