Airbus is mobilizing staff from outside Germany to assist with a tricky producti...
PARIS/HAMBURG - Airbus is mobilizing staff from outside Germany to assist with a tricky production ramp-up of A321 passenger jets at its plant in Hamburg, industry sources said.
The planemaker has faced a string of industrial problems at the plant, which is responsible for the in-demand A321 model - the largest member of the best-selling single-aisle A320 family. Such long trips require new multi-class cabins, compared to short- or medium-range trips for which the A321 was originally designed, and Hamburg is the Airbus factory responsible for handling this type of work on the company’s important cash cow.
Airbus is offering redeployment to some of the 3,500 staff who face losing jobs as output of the A380 superjumbo ends in 2021. It is upgrading some temporary workers to permanent contracts to work on the complex A321 “Cabin Flex” variant.“A321 Head of Versions are exclusively built in Hamburg. To address the above challenges, attention and resources are shifting to Hamburg.”
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