Air France-KLM to propose 400 ground staff redundancies: La Tribune

Air France-KLM will propose a voluntary redundancy scheme that would affect nearly 400 ground staff at French airports, La Tribune said on Saturday, a day after the airline posted a deeper Q1 loss. The Franco-Dutch company, which blamed higher fuel costs and price competition for its operating loss of E303m, will present the redundancy plan to a union and management meeting on May 13, La Tribune said. Another 200 departing staff would not be replaced, it added. An Air France spokesman confirmed that a voluntary plan to cut short-haul ground staff would be presented on May 13 but declined to give details on the proposals ahead of the meeting. He also said that a company review had pointed to a need to hire more than 1,000 people across the company’s business this year. <br/>