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Generations of pilots learned their trade at the Lufthansa flight school in Bremen.
However, since March 2020 there have been no more flight students.
Around 700 prospective pilots were sent home because of the corona crisis - some are only a few hours away from their destination.
They were offered the option of finishing their training "free of charge" or continuing it in another flight school.
In contrast, more than 100 pupils from the Bremen Commercial Aviation School filed a lawsuit with the Frankfurt Labor Court.
Now Lufthansa has announced a conversion of the training: The flight school in Bremen is not to be closed completely, but will still be used for theory lessons.
The practical part of the training will be relocated to Rostock Airport.
For this year, the airline group is expecting an average of 50 percent of the flight volume that existed in 2019 before the pandemic broke out.
Management does not expect a recovery to pre-crisis levels until the middle of the decade.
With the massive reduction in air traffic in the pandemic, the need for recruitment has ceased, said Lufthansa.
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With the new campus model, training will be made more efficient.
The traditional flight school in Bremen should therefore not be closed, as was speculated in view of the termination of training for some of the flight students last year.
But in future only theoretical training will be offered at the location.
The practical training will be brought together in Rostock-Laage.
The Bremen training flights with Cessna training jets are expected to end in the middle of the year, as a spokesman said.
Negotiations on a reconciliation of interests and a social plan are to begin for the approximately 100 employees in Bremen.
It is not yet clear how many employees will have to leave.
In Rostock the training flights take place in cheaper propeller machines.
As Lufthansa explained, in future the graduates will be recruited by the various airlines in the Lufthansa Group depending on the demand situation.
Lufthansa left it open when the training should be resumed.
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