Lufthansa realigns exec. board
The Supervisory Board of Deutsche
Lufthansa AG has decided to realign the
Executive Board of Lufthansa Group in
terms of structure and staffing.
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As of 1 January 2020, the Executive
Board will be expanded to include the
board-level position “Customer & Corporate
Responsibility”. Christina Foerster,
CEO Brussels Airlines, has been
appointed to the board for this task; her
contract has a term of three years. In her
new role, Christina Foerster will assume
responsibility for product management,
the future catering interface and marketing,
including responsibility for the customer
loyalty program “Miles & More”,
among other things. Christina Foerster
will also be responsible for “Cultural Development”
and will head the “Corporate
Responsibility” department, making this
the first time that the company’s responsibility
for the environment, climate and
society has been represented at the board
level.
Going forward, Harry Hohmeister will
be responsible for the coordination of network
planning, revenue management, distribution
and sales for all of the group’s
passenger airlines as head of the “Commercial
Passenger Airlines” division.
Against the background of the great
importance of IT, digitalization and innovation,
responsibility for these topics will
be bundled in a newly created department
“IT, Digital & Innovation” in future, to be
headed by Thorsten Dirks.
The Supervisory Board has also decided
to consistently structure the Executive
Board according to functional criteria.
As a result, “Eurowings” will no
longer be managed as a separate boardlevel
division. Eurowings has now established
itself as an important division of the
group and the third-largest point-to-point
airline in Europe. Going forward, the “HR
& Legal” department will be headed by Michael
Niggemann, CFO of Swiss International
Airlines. He was also appointed to
the Executive Board for three years today
“The development of two in-house executives
into our Executive Board team is
also an important contribution to the continuous
development of our management
culture,” says Carsten Spohr, Chairman
of the Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa
AG. “
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