How Transavia Affect Air France Workers

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Air France-KLM Group (AF)’s pilots end two-week strike today.It’s largest pilots union called it off and the talk continued about the implications for workers of the company’s move to expand its discount unit-Transavia.

Transavia Airlines C.V., styled as transavia.com and known as Transavia, is a Dutch based low-cost airline operating as an independent part of the Air France-KLM group.Recent years,Air France-KLM Group investing large amount money to Transavia,which is a low-cost company to satisfied markets demand.In this case,Air France-KLM Group have to send its pilots to the Transavia,whose pilots fly longer hours for less pay.It’s so obvious that no crew will happy about this arrangement.But the company says,those who volunteered to do so would accumulate flight hours, and therefore seniority, more quickly than at Air France, placing them in line for earlier promotion within the group.This lead unfair and much debates between the pilots of the company.Pilots all want to promote early but not willing to paid less and work so hard.

Now, in order to reduce the cost of Transavia without affect the Air France’s pilots profits,the company offered a major concession by abandoning a key element of its strategy that would have based up to one-third of Transavia’s new planes and employees in lower-wage European countries like Portugal.So hiring new workers there with a lower wage will definitely helps AF’s finance situation.Also,Transavia’s cost will be lower,and people can buy cheaper air tickets which help the expansion of Air France-KLM Group.

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