Lufthansa To Cut 4,000 Jobs As Airline Turns To AI To Boost Efficiency
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/01/0320206/lufthansa-to-cut-4000-jobs-as-airline-turns-to-ai-to-boost-efficiency
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> Lufthansa announced plans to cut 4,000 roles on Monday as it [1]aims to increase profitability and lean on AI to drive efficiency . The airline group said it will eliminate a total of 4,000 FTE, or full-time equivalent, roles worldwide by 2030. The company is targeting primarily admin roles, the majority of which will be affected at its home base in Germany, as part of a broader restructuring strategy.
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> "The Lufthansa Group is reviewing which activities will no longer be necessary in the future, for example due to duplication of work. In particular, the profound changes brought about by digitalization and the increased use of artificial intelligence will lead to greater efficiency in many areas and processes," the company said in a release issued during its Capital Markets Day in Munich. CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski said earlier this year that artificial intelligence had partially helped to shrink the company's headcount by 40% down from 5,000 employees to almost 3,000.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/29/lufthansa-to-cut-4000-jobs-turns-to-ai-to-boost-efficiency-.html
Efficiency (Score:2)
> In particular, the profound changes brought about by digitalization and the increased use of artificial intelligence will lead to greater efficiency in many areas and processes
If you measure efficiency solely by ratio of dollars in to dollars out, this is obviously going to be true... for a while. Sooner or later the errors will catch up and wipe out the cost savings.
Only a forecast (Score:2)
Not a certainty. If they're expecting LLMs to be reason for the cuts then they'll be disappointed.
2030: An Air Odyssey (Score:3)
I'm sorry Dave, I can't cross-check and secure the doors for takeoff.
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No it's more like:
Please cross cross check doors for takeoff.
Got it &emdash; all doors are secured! Please let me know if you have any further questions :smiling-face-emoji:
[At altitude] WTF THE FUCKING DOOR IS OPEN
You're absolutely right &emdash; sorry for incorrectly saying the door was open :embarrassed-face-emoji:. Would you like me to serve drinks now?
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It's not cabin crew, it's the ground staff who handle things like routing, flight crew assignments, customers and bookings, that sort of thing. Giving themselves 5 years to do it means they will probably mostly rely on turnover. They have over 100k employees.
company failing? (Score:1)
no not at all. we are laying people and replacing them with AI. You should buy more of our stock. We are doing great!
Keep this title for this News sites (Score:2)
For the rest of us stop trying to sell it is because of the MAGIC AI.
Lufthansa (Score:2)
Guess the Lufthansa Heist finally caught up to them.
Re:Oh for fuck's sake (Score:5, Insightful)
You know Lufthansa is not an American company right?
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Yeah I know we're going to take the rest of the world down with us we always do. We explicitly set it up that way post world war II. The European Union was supposed to be way to limit that influence which is why there's a strong effort under way to break it down.
I also know that they have staff in every country because and this might seem strange they are a mother fucking airline and airlines travel internationally.
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Lufthansa does not operate domestically in the US. We are borderline irrelevant to their business. Trump can be wrecking our economy AND also companies on the other side of the world can make decisions that have nothing to do with us.
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It doesn't have to. First, it code-shares with United. Second, Lufthansa has many flights to and from the USA. Third, Lufthansa buys aircraft in the USA. Fourth, Germany exports a lot to the USA and if the orange shitgibbon puts roadblocks to that, the country where Lufthansa does fly domestically, gets problems with the economy.
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As noted in the summary, these are admin roles, less than 4% of their workforce, and given the timeframe it will be down to simply not replacing people when they leave in most cases.
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> They intentionally take diametrically opposed views on irrelevant social issues while doing everything to destroy the US economy, the global economy and enforce more authoritarianism on Americas.
This is nonsense. They are united in allowing the corporatocracy to destroy our life support system (the biosphere) but the Democrats want to keep the status quo and do it slow while the Republicans want to make it ultra-partisan and do it fast. The difference is one of degree and not nature, but there is still a difference, and it is still meaningful as one of them leads much more rapidly to destruction.