Dutch airline KLM scraps 250 office jobs

In October last year, KLM announced a package of measures to structurally improve the financial and operational performance of the company. “In recent months, the measures, which must lead to an improvement in the operating result by 450 million euros, have been further elaborated,” says KLM NOW.

“It is crucial for our future to structurally lower costs and that includes painful choices. One is to reduce the number of office functions, “says Rintel. KLM remains to recruit staff for “operational or scarce functions”, “so that we can use our operational capacity as much as possible”.

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Earlier, KLM announced that it will postpone the construction of a new head office and the investments for two other buildings. “There are also measures throughout the company to increase productivity by at least 5 percent and to improve profitability. Investments are being reconsidered and postponed, and there is an exploration to dispose of or stop activities that do not contribute directly to the execution of flights, ”concludes the top woman.