The Lufthansa Group employs people of all abilities, people of different gender, national and ethnic origins, religions, age groups, and sexual identities and orientations. This diversity within the company also means a vast array of skills, perspectives, and experiences. For the Lufthansa Group as an employer and service provider, diversity and equal opportunities are important and necessary. The company becomes more flexible and creative – essential qualities for remaining innovative and adaptable. This also leads to a more varied understanding of customer needs and contributes to a customer-oriented development of products and services. At the same time, the Lufthansa Group's diversity approach underscores the appreciation of, and equal opportunities for, all employees.
Promoting this diversity further is a main goal of the Lufthansa Group's personnel strategy. All employees should be able to contribute their own talents in a prejudice-free work environment, free from disadvantages, where personal boundaries are respected.
Women in Leadership Positions Over 25 Percent
To promote women, the Lufthansa Group has implemented numerous measures in its staffing processes. For example, every shortlist for management positions must include a fixed proportion of women. Final appointments, of course, still follow a clear best-selection process. Additionally, there is a wide portfolio of individual development measures for female talents, such as special programs for emerging leaders and networks for mutual exchange of experiences. In leadership training at the Lufthansa Group, topics such as unconscious thought patterns and biases (e.g., in the recruiting process) and inclusive leadership techniques are regularly addressed.
25 %
Percentage of women in management positions
50 %
female employees
The Lufthansa Group achieved its goal of 25 percent female leaders in the first quarter of 2025. By the end of 2024, the proportion of female leaders across the group was 25.3 percent (2023: 22.3 percent). Overall, the proportion of female employees in the Lufthansa Group is around 50 percent.
Employment and integration of people with disabilities
For the Lufthansa Group, the employment and integration of people with disabilities is not only a legal obligation but also a fulfillment of social responsibility. Providing targeted support for their professional development is a matter of course for the management boards, human resources management and representatives of employees with disabilities, who meet regularly to discuss further steps to include people with disabilities. In 2024, the Lufthansa Group implemented a new corporate inclusion agreement, replacing the previous integration agreement from 2003. The new agreement aims to further strengthen the rights of people with disabilities and raise awareness for their concerns. Additionally, an action plan was adopted, including a wide range of information and communication offerings for employees and targeted training for leaders.
By the end of 2024, the employment rate of people with disabilities in the Lufthansa Group in Germany was 4.0 percent. While some companies exceed the legally stipulated minimum quota of five percent, the disability employment rate in other companies is lower – partly due to legal regulations. Therefore, the Lufthansa Group also uses other ways of supporting people with disabilities, such as awarding contracts to workshops for people with disabilities or cooperating with the National Paralympic Committee Germany.
The Lufthansa Group supports a balance between work and personal life
For a life-phase-oriented personnel policy, the Lufthansa Group develops and advances offers and measures that help employees actively shape their personal phases and better reconcile them with professional life. This includes entering the workforce, family phases, or caring for relatives. This ranges from shared leadership, i.e., the sharing a management position, to flexible working time models, such as different part-time arrangements, opportunities for remote work, to various offers, such as in the areas of ad-hoc childcare, parent-child offices, regular childcare, holiday care, and care for relatives.
Support for Queer Concerns
The Lufthansa Group is committed to promoting a working environment free of discrimination in which all employees can develop their talents – naturally, regardless of sexual orientation or identity. The airline group recognizes all genders and gender identities, as well as trans and intersex individuals.
In 2018, the queer employee network "Diversifly" was founded. As the official queer network of the Lufthansa Group, Diversifly has over 600 members from almost all parts of the group and continents. The focus is on cross-company exchange and mutual support around the topic of diversity. Also in focus is continuous exchange with the company to make the Lufthansa Group a leading employer for queer people. In addition to supporting the Diversifly network, the Lufthansa Group also visibly demonstrates its position on openness and diversity – starting with "Lovehansa," a permanent special livery for a Lufthansa A320neo, raising the rainbow flag at various company locations during Pride season, to sponsoring Christopher Street Day parades, including the parade in Frankfurt and annual Pride marketing campaigns.
Diversifly Logo
Giving diversity a face
Other employee and executive networks and initiatives support the company's diversity and equal opportunity goals. The employee initiative #CourageUp is committed to fighting racism and discrimination. Other examples include the Lufthansa Group's Female Leadership network, Lufthansa Technik's Female Network or the Fathers Network. In order to make the offers known beyond the boundaries of the respective divisions and Group companies, the overarching "Power Up" network acts as a multiplier, providing a common technical platform for the mutual exchange of know-how and support. The network promotes a cultural change from bottom to top through empowerment, visibility, and exchange with support from existing role models in leadership positions. Many executives also advocate for diversity, for example by supporting networks, showing a visible attitude or promoting more diversity in their teams.
A clear stance against discrimination
The Lufthansa Group promotes diversity and respect within the company
Any form of discrimination, such as based on gender, age, skin color, origin, nationality, religious affiliation, sexual orientation or identity, disability, political views, or union activity, is not tolerated by the Lufthansa Group. The airline group relies on continuous communication and accompanying measures packages for awareness and prevention and has established numerous internal reporting channels. Most recently, the Lufthansa Group launched an internal awareness campaign on the United Nations' International Zero Discrimination Day on March 1, 2024: #Respect - For Diversity. Against Discrimination. Affected and sensitized colleagues participated in the conception and accompanied the implementation. The #Respect campaign builds on the internal awareness campaign #RespectLimits of the Lufthansa Group from 2018 to 2020. The latter was recognized by the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency as a best-practice example in dealing with sexual harassment in the workplace. The Lufthansa Group underscores its stance against any form of discrimination and harassment at the end of 2024 by joining the alliance "Together Against Sexism."
Visibly Showing Stance
The Lufthansa Group publicly promotes diversity and tolerance
In times of anti-European tendencies, the strengthening of anti-democratic parties, and concern about a divided society, the Lufthansa Group set a visible sign in the European election year 2024. A clear and visible message on the ground and more than ten kilometers high. All over Europe. With the clear statement "Yes to Europe," four aircraft from four different airlines of the Lufthansa Group flew through their European homeland: Lufthansa, Brussels Airlines, Austrian Airlines, and Eurowings as ambassadors of a strong, peaceful, and united Europe. The slogan "Yes to Europe," framed by the European star wreath, was visible on the aircraft. The planes were seen at airports across Europe until autumn 2025 and accompanied major events such as the European elections, the European Football Championship, and the Olympic Games.
Together with more than 500 German associations and companies, the Lufthansa Group set a sign for diversity and freedom and against extremism in spring 2024 with the campaign "#Zusammenland– Vielfalt macht uns stark." And in autumn 2023, the Lufthansa Group, together with 100 companies in Germany, spoke out against anti-Semitism in a joint advertising campaign "Never Again is Now." As the world's first airline group, the Lufthansa Group adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism in September 2022.
Around the men's 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, a Lufthansa aircraft visibly carried its stance for diversity and tolerance worldwide — with the slogan "Diversity Wins" and an illustration showing the men's national football team with fans in all their diversity. After the first flight to Muscat with the German national football team on board, the aircraft with this livery traveled to many destinations for months.