Lufthansa Technik AG, a subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group has announced the return of the company’s apprentice training program for the year 2022. Post to one of the biggest aviation industry crises and after a two-year hiatus, the company has welcomed new dual-study trainees under the program. According to the training program, 186 young people will begin their apprenticeship at the German locations of Lufthansa Technik AG.
Apart from that, a total of 23 dual students were taken on, i.e. school graduates who combine their degree courses with practical applications. . The company’s apprentice training program in 2022 has returned in terms of numbers to roughly where it was in 2020, before the pandemic.
Of the total 209 new training positions or places to study, 122 positions are directly attributable to Lufthansa Technik AG, 36 positions for the first time to the technical operations of Lufthansa Airlines, and the remainder to the companies of the Lufthansa Technik Group. The percentage of women trainees in 2022 is a good 14 percent. The inclusion of people with physical disabilities also remains a declared goal of the company: In Hamburg, two hearing-impaired people will start their training as tool mechanics this year.