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Finnair to hire hundreds of new pilots

19 Aug 2015

Finnair has announced that it will hire 200 pilots on a permanent basis as it prepares to take delivery of its new fleet of Airbus A350 XWB aircraft and to respond to a rising demand for air travel.
“We are preparing for future growth and will hire nearly 60 full-time pilots as early as this autumn. The pilots will be assigned to Finnair's long-haul services, with the first being set to start already in October,” Jari Paajanen, the head of flight operations at Finnair, tells in a bulletin.
The majority-state-owned airline is scheduled to take delivery of the first of the 19 Airbus A350s it has ordered as early as this autumn. The first of the Airbus A350s will replace the seven Airbus A340s currently in service and the rest expand the fleet – and thereby the flight operations – of Finnair.
The full-time employment contracts will be offered to pilots who are currently employed by the airline on a fixed-term basis or who are set to join the airline on a fixed-term basis next summer.
Finnair announced earlier this summer that it will also hire more than one hundred cabin crew after re-organising its staff considerably through lay-offs and outsourcing in recent years. The number of people employed by the airline has fallen from 7,578 in 2010 to no more than 3,949 at the end of June.
The swollen cost bstructure of Finnair has hindered its ability to respond to the foray of low-cost carriers into the aviation market.
Karoliina Liimatainen – HS
Aleksi Teivainen – HT
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