Lufthansa Group Looking to Hire Over 5,000 New Employees in 2019

Airlines of the Lufthansa Group.

Some 5,500 new employees will be cleared for takeoff with a career in Lufthansa Group this year – in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Belgium alone, the home markets of the aviation group.

Lufthansa flight attendants.

In an announcement on Tuesday, the company said that it is looking to hire over 1,300 flight attendants – primarily at the Munich hub and at SWISS in Zürich. For the core Lufthansa brand, around 1,200 new hires are planned at the Frankfurt and Munich hubs, in all business areas. Lufthansa Group is also hiring a large number of additional employees worldwide.

In addition, up to 500 future pilots are to begin their training as flight students with Lufthansa Aviation Training at the European Flight Academy in 2019. In order to stabilize flight operations after a turbulent summer, Lufthansa Group is investing approximately a quarter of a billion euros. For instance, around 600 employees are being hired to ensure quality in operations.

Trainee pilots at Lufthansa.

Also, Lufthansa Technik Group, a leading provider of maintenance for civil aircraft, is looking for over 1,200 new colleagues in Germany, including several hundred operational employees, 400 direct entries and more than 200 apprentices. Lufthansa Group is also looking to hire well over 600 IT specialists in Germany. The group said that it was also seeking staff for its Industry Solutions (350 projected new hires) or Lufthansa Airlines (150). There is also a group-wide program that will employ 15 IT trainees.

Lufthansa Technik.

In its announcement, Lufthansa Group said that over 300 new positions for junior employees are planned in Germany for this year and almost 80 will start their vocational training at Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) and Austrian Airlines in Switzerland and Austria. On top of this, around 60 trainees will be off to a flying start in Lufthansa Group this year. The group currently offers ten cooperative degree programs as well as vocational training in 29 different skilled occupations and several trainee programs.

According to Lufthansa, there are over 500 job profiles in the globally operating aviation group that has over 550 subsidiaries and affiliates. Potential applicants can find available positions in the career portal Be-Lufthansa (www.be-lufthansa.com). The group said that over 170,000 applications were submitted through its platform in 2018.