Air France will draw the social consequences of the Covid-19 crisis, which is nailing all airlines to the ground. In an interview with Reuters Thursday, the director general of Air France-KLM, Ben Smith, did not go there by four ways: "Air France will start talks with its unions on a possible reduction of its workforce."
This should translate into a voluntary redundancy plan, not dry layoffs. "We will prioritize by all means volunteering and mobility," says one at Air France, which has 40,000 employees. "We expect a few thousand layoffs," says a union member. This desire to reduce the number of jobs is not a surprise, given the extent of the damage caused to aviation by this pandemic.
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For the Franco-Dutch group, the publication on Thursday of the results in the first quarter gives a first idea. From January to March, it lost 1.8 billion euros. And the group
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