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On Monday, February 17th, 2025, Luxair’s Management and the contracting unions LCGB and OGBL reached an agreement on the renewal of the collective work contract, resulting in a new Collective Agreement for employees until December 31st, 2027.
This outcome reflects the balance achieved between the expectations of employees and the economic and commercial challenges faced by the company. The decisions made were guided both by the desire to recognize past efforts of the staff members and by the need to prepare a sustainable and prosperous future for everyone.
The discussions took place in a spirit of respect and responsibility and lead to significant advancements in favour of Luxair employees. These improvements help strengthen the company’s social and economic model by consolidating the achievements and ensuring working conditions adapted to the company's transformations, particularly the introduction of the new aircraft fleet.
In this spirit, this collective work agreement ensures a fair balance between recognizing the efforts of all employees, job stability and adaptation to future challenges. It is also a decisive step toward solid development and the continuation of social dialogue, benefiting all stakeholders.
The results of these negotiations are structured around the following key measures:
1. Adjustment of salary scales for pilots, ground staff, and cabin crew
The new salary scale for pilots, now comprising only two categories (Co-Pilot and Captain), allows Luxair to better align its offer with current market conditions. It also facilitates the transition to the new aircraft fleet and provides better career management for pilots.
Regarding the new transitional salary scales for ground staff and cabin crew, they eliminate negative steps, ensure annual salary progression and replace biennial increases with annual increments starting from the former grade 25. Additionally, specific measures, such as the improvement of the allowance for Senior Cabin Crew (Purser), have also been agreed upon.
2. Measures for employees who helped achieve 2.6 million passengers after the pandemic (recovery of frozen salary scale advancements)
As a reminder, due to the dramatic economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on Luxair, it had been agreed with the LCGB and OGBL unions, as part of the aviation sector’s tripartite agreement, to freeze employees' salary scale advancements starting in 2021 for a period of three years. However, thanks to the efforts of the staff and the improvement of the company's economic situation, the social partners had agreed to lift this measure prematurely as of January 2023.
As part of these collective agreement negotiations, and in recognition of the efforts made by all employees, it was decided that these salary scale advancements would be reintroduced into the salaries starting January 1st, 2025.
A salary increase in the form of a special crisis exit allowance of 50.00€ gross at the index 944.43, indexed and paid 13 times a year, will be paid starting October 1st, 2025, for employees (excluding pilots) under employment contracts on December 31st, 2024.
3. Flexibility measures to improve work-life balance
Significant adjustments have been made to the current provisions to better meet the needs of employees and Luxair, as well as to improve the quality of work life. These changes include improvements to working conditions and schedules (increased number of days off for cabin crews, six-day roster planning, minimization of single off-days, flight factorization for crews the possibility of using flextime hours in full-day increments, allocation of an additional day off as of 55 years old, partial conversion of the thirteenth month into vacation days, and the implementation of a home office policy).
4. Strengthening the social dialogue Beyond the transitional decisions regarding the salary scale for ground staff and cabin crew, a joint committee will be established within the collective agreement to strengthen social dialogue and ensure an open and continuous exchange between the contracting unions LCGB and OGBL and Luxair’s Management. This joint committee will continue to work on three topics within the framework of this agreement:
- The regulation of flight duty for cabin crew (FDR - Flight Duty Regulations),
- The salary scales for former workers and former employees, and
- The text of the Collective Work Agreement itself.
Luxair is also committed to recruiting sufficient staff members to significantly improve the reliability and practicality of flight schedules, as well as making reasonable investments to enhance its schedule management program.
In parallel with unprecedented investments in the aircraft fleet, this exceptional effort is part of a forward-looking vision where the value of human capital and social dialogue between social partners are seen as key drivers of Luxair's success.