Volotea team of Barcelona headquarters.
The airline has increased its headcount by 20% in the last twelve months, creating 180 new jobs. Volotea expects to add 250 new employees this year to capitalise on its activity growth.
BARCELONA – Volotea, the airline of mid and small?sized European cities, has announced that its headcounts exceeds 1,000 people among employees at its headquarters in Barcelona and its twelve bases in France, Italy, Spain and Greece.
In less than seven years, Volotea has created one thousand jobs, a remarkably strong growth from 2011 when the airline had five employees. In the last twelve months, Volotea has increased its headcount by 20%, adding 180 people and, since June has already exceeded 1,000 employees.
The almost 400 employees in France are working at Volotea bases in Nantes, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Marseille and Strasbourg. More than 300 work in Venice, Verona, Genoa and Palermo (Italy) and more than 100 in Spain’s bases (Bilbao and Asturias), working in positions as pilots, cabin crew, handling and administrative tasks. In addition, there are 220 employees based in the Volotea’s Barcelona headquarters.
By roles, most of the employees work in the Operations Department (788 people, including 316 pilots, 424 cabin crews and 48 employees in administrative tasks and self-handling), spread among the twelve bases from where Volotea operates.
The airline’s headcount includes more than 35 different nationalities. Most of the employees are Spanish (423), Italian (252) and French (236), but Volotea also has a number of employees from Greece, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Finland and Belgium.
The opening of three new bases this year has created 120 new positions in Bilbao, Marseille and Athens. Additionally, in the Barcelona headquarters, Volotea has created close to fifty new jobs, hiring staff in recent months in the Operations, Technical, Quality and Safety, Commercial, Marketing, and Strategy departments.
“Hitting the 1,000 employee headcount milestone, this increase in crews and headquarters staff shows that we are devoted in our growth, the development of our operations and client satisfaction, working in a multicultural and diverse environment and a highly qualified team. Volotea offers job opportunities to develop a professional career in a dynamic work place with vast promotion opportunities, growing functions, working in teams, and cross-department responsibilities. Like Volotea, our team is growing at cruising speed!” Aurora Ventura, Volotea’s Chief People’s Officer, stated.
The airline, launched by Carlos Munoz and Lazaro Ros (also founders of Vueling in the previous decade), had only five employees in the summer of 2011: the above mentioned Carlos Munoz and Lazaro Ros, Marco Comani, Chief Strategy Officer (and former Chief Strategy Officer at Vueling); Roman Pane, Chief Operations Officer (former CEO at Futura); and John Owen, CFO (previously CEO at Jetblue in the United States).
All five founders are very pleased that Volotea has been able to add more than one thousand people seven years later.
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