Airline Lufthansa AG said Tuesday it would hire 3,000 new workers in 2007, most of them in its home market of Germany.
A spokesman confirmed a report in the Bild newspaper that the company was seeking about 3,000 employees, including 1,200 cabin crew, 800 ground staff and 240 trainee pilots.
About 2,000 of the jobs are at its main hubs of Frankfurt and Munich, the paper said in a report released before its publication Wednesday.
Air transport remains a "real job motor for Germany," Lufthansa chief executive Wolfgang Mayrhuber was quoted as saying.
"For that to continue, the infrastructure at German airports must improve urgently, otherwise the new jobs will be in Dubai or somewhere else," Mayrhuber said.
Lufthansa has reported higher passenger numbers in recent months and is forecasting higher underlying earnings for 2006, even as rising fuel costs eat into its bottom line.
Lufthansa employed 92,305 people at the end of 2005. A spokesman was unable to provide a more recent figure.
Shares in Lufthansa closed 1.2 percent higher at 21.09 euros ($27.82) Tuesday on the Frankfurt stock exchange.
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