In a letter to staff seen by Reuters, the German airline’s executive board said that 300 aircraft would remain grounded in 2021 and that 200 aircraft would be grounded in 2022.
“In the summer of 2023, when we will hopefully will have put this crisis behind us, we will still likely have a fleet that is 100 aircraft smaller,” the board said in the letter.
The airline group had a fleet of 763 planes at the end of 2019, according to its annual report.