The airline SWISS has extended its cost-saving measures to ground staff. “The aim is to reduce our administrative staff by around 10%,” said Jens Fehlinger, CEO of SWISS, in an interview with the newspaper NZZ am Sonntag. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The airline does not want to resort to redundancies, Fehlinger said in an interview published on Sunday. The reduction will be achieved only through voluntary departures, he added. To achieve savings at the administrative level, SWISS is offering financial incentives, as it did for cabin crew. For example, personnel can receive 20% of the base salary saved if they take unpaid leave. The CEO justified this measure by pointing to the pressure on costs that involved not just an increase in kerosene prices. “We have structurally higher costs,” Fehlinger said, citing aircraft maintenance, environmental taxes, and rising personnel costs as examples. In total, the Lufthansa subsidiary wants to reduce its costs …