Airline Lufthansa to cut staff at headquarters

BERLIN: Deutsche Lufthansa AG said on Sunday that it needs to save money in its headquarters' administration department due to the financial crisis.

The Cologne-based company wants to reduce its costs for personnel at the department in Cologne by five percent, a company spokesman told the Associated Press.

German daily newspaper Handelsblatt reported Sunday that the airline wants to cut 15 percent of the jobs in the administration department by 2012. The company spokesman could not confirm that number.