Air France HRD has been busy this summer. It has started implementing its 7,580 job cuts announced in early July. The most significant advances concern pilots. At the end of June, the group had signed an agreement with the SNPL (National Union of Airline Pilots) fixing the terms of voluntary departure within the framework of an RCC (Collective Collective Termination). The starting pilots will receive thirteen months salary.
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They had until the end of July to make their intentions known. The group expected a maximum of 403 departures out of nearly 4,100 pilots. “ 365 pilots will leave the group at the end of the month with this device,” we told Air France. "These are high figures given the very short deadlines left to pilots to decide," says Guillaume Schmid, vice-president of SNPL Air France.
Unsurprisingly, the overwhelming majority of starters are nearing the end of their careers and will retire sooner than they had imagined.
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