Air France announces a reorganization plan that previews 2,900 esuberi



The president and managing director of Air France, Frédéric Gagey. he has introduced today a plan of restructure of the net of connections airplane long-range of the company that previews esuberi for a previewed total of 2.900 dependent, between which 300 pilots, 900 assigned between the navigating staff and 1,700 between the earth staff, plan - he has specified the transalpine airline - that is adopted in consideration of the impossibility to sign agreements for the performance of the productivity measures that carry to a long-lasting return to the profit.

"It displeases - it has declared Alexandre Juniac, president and managing director to us of Air France-KLM, company been born in 2004 from the fusion of the French company with the KLM Dutch - than is not found an agreement with the unions of the staff of cabin of Air France. The reorganization of the society can be realized solo through the mobilization of all its staff. Continuous management of Air France to being available to anytime resume the negotiations with its unions. We remain determined to put into effect the measures necessary in order to guarantee the sustainability of Air France and to allow them to finance its development".

The announcement has triggered hard protests and the irruption of some hundreds of dependent in the center of the airline to Roissy that it has forced to the escape in charge of the human resources of Air France, Xavier Broseta, violences that the company has hardly condemned preannouncing complaints.

The plan of restructure of Air France previews that the ability to the Network long-range will have to diminish of about 10% between 2015 and 2017 and that such reduction relatively to the nets of Air France-KLM will be of about 2% in the same period respect to an increase of about 3% previewed previously. In particular, currently the plan previews that within the 2017 five lines are closed and are cancelled 35 frequencies weeklies magazine. Such measures will be concentrated on the lines of the net that more record the elevated economic losses, that they above all serve Asia and the Middle East.

Moreover from the fleet of long range of Air France 14 aircrafts will exit, passing from 107 airplane operated during in the course summer 2015 to 93 in the summer of 2017. The company has specified that such reduction will be reached accelerating the exited previewed one from the fleet of A340 aircrafts that will not be replaced by aircrafts Boeing 787 as originally previewed.