German airline group Lufthansa said, it plans
to hire more than 8,000 people in 2018, the latest step in a relentless push
for growth at one of Europe's largest carriers.
Taking into account workers leaving the
company, a Lufthansa spokesman told AFP that the net effect of the hiring spree
would be "several thousand" new jobs -- an increase on the roughly
3,000 who started work last year.
More than half of the new employees will be
flight attendants.
As well as its own blue-and-yellow liveried
fleet, Lufthansa owns a slew of smaller airlines, including no-frills
Eurowings, Swiss Air, Austrian and Brussels Airlines.
Some 2,500 of the new hires will go to
Lufthansa proper, while 2,700 take up jobs at Eurowings.
The subsidiary has been the focus of
Lufthansa's expansion, as chief executive Carsten Spohr seeks to ward off the
challenge from low-cost competitors like Ireland's Ryanair or UK-based Easyjet.
In December, the group received the European
Commission's approval to buy up a large chunk of bankrupt competitor Air
Berlin, including 33 leased planes and prized landing slots at busy German
airports.
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