The unions are calling on the transport ministry to quickly convene a follow-up committee to the aviation tripartite, they said in a statement on Tuesday. Working conditions and increased overload are the main concerns for the employees’ representatives.

The resumption of activity, sometimes higher than that of 2019, would indeed have resulted in an overload of work at Luxair. “Faced with this situation, the unions intervened in July 2022 with the general management of the Luxair company in order to meet at short notice with the aim of finding solutions to the various problems of work organisation which were having an unfavourable impact on working conditions,” stated the unions in a joint press release. According to the unions, no action was taken by those in charge.

“The current working conditions for all employees of the company continue to deteriorate, and this situation has become unacceptable! Therefore, the tripartite aviation monitoring committee must analyse the current situation and draw the necessary conclusions and decisions,” stated the unions.

In a recent with Delano’s sister publication Paperjam, , CEO of Luxair, explained that he was aware of these problems and of the heavy workload in summer and autumn, while pointing out that some of the difficulties were not directly attributable to Luxair, that the activity was still lower than before the covid pandemic and that the company was still in the red financially. The prospect of the forthcoming salary freeze in the latest collective agreement was another cause for concern for Feith.

This story was first published in French on . It has been translated and edited for Delano.