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.
German airline Lufthansa announced plans to cut around 4,000 administrative jobs globally, with most of the jobs being shed in Germany. The company wants to carry out the job reduction scheme by 2030.
The job cuts are being carried out to reduce costs and to increase revenues. Eliminated positions will partially be replaced by artificial intelligence. Operations will be streamlined across the group with the goal to avoid double structures. Lufthansa will enter negotiations with the social partners regarding the job reduction scheme.
Lufthansa currently employs around 103,000 people worldwide.
The recent as well as previous global restructuring events of Lufthansa are also recorded in the ERM events database: Lufthansa 2025 - WO Lufthansa 2020-WO (39,000 jobs cut); Lufthansa 2022-WO (10,000 jobs cut); Lufthansa 2023-WO (8,000 jobs cut).
Eurofound (2025), Lufthansa, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 203481, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/203481.