Europe-based global major aerospace group Airbus announced at the end of June that it was going to have to cut 15 000 jobs over the next 12 months – from now until the northern summer of 2021 – and resize the operations of its commercial aircraft business. These steps were being taken to meet the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, which had severely affected the global air transport sector. The necessary information and consultation process has begun, and the group’s aim is to start the downsizing in the northern autumn/southern spring. Airbus has calculated that it needed to shed some 5 000 jobs in France, about 5 100 in Germany, 900 in Spain, 1 700 in the UK and 1 300 at other Airbus sites around the world. These numbers included Airbus’ French subsidiary Stelia and German subsidiary Premium AEROTEC. They excluded 900 jobs at Premium AEROTEC that had already been identified for cutting before the onset of the pandemic, as part of a plan to restructure that subsidiary.
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