Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Austrian Airlines (AUA), part of the German Lufthansa Group, has announced the creation of 100 new jobs in the upcoming year. Plans are part of a general business expansion at Lufthansa, which seeks to create 4,000 new jobs across the group, as recently reported (EF Lufthansa 2016) . According to newspapers, 100 new pilots will be hired in Austria. Other sources also suggest that additionally, 200 flight attendants will be employed.
The latest job creation announcement took place in 2013. In the previous years the company cut jobs in 2009 (1000 jobs) and 2012 (150 and 341 jobs).
AUA, headquartered in Vienna, currently employs around 6,000 staff.
Update 17/03/2016:
AUA now specified earlier announcements to create new jobs in the upcoming year. According to newspapers 80 pilots and 240 flight attendants will be hired. Overall, AUA plans to train 400 new crew members by 2017.
Update 13/04/2016:
In a new press release AUA announced that in 2016 a total number of 160 pilots and 400 flight attendants will be hired.
Eurofound (2016), Austrian Airlines, Business expansion in Austria, factsheet number 86096, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/86096.
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