In the Sky 22 Sept 2010 • Lufthansa Group nomina Nuova Leadership • New Board Christoph Franz chief executive • Wolfgang Mayrhuber espera

In the Sky 22 Sept 2010 • Lufthansa Group nomina Nuova Leadership • New Board Christoph Franz chief executive • Wolfgang Mayrhuber espera

Dopo 7 anni di successi Christoph Franz prende il posto di Wolfgang Mayrhuber (63).

Christoph Franz è stato l’artefice della ristrutturazione della controllata Swiss airlines, attualmente la Compagnia Aerea più redditizia del gruppo Lufthansa.

Negli ultimi anni LUFTHANSA Group cresciuta rapidamente attraverso acquisizioni Europee: oltre a Swiss, Brussels Airlines, Austrian Airlines, BMI British Midland.

Ancora poco chiara la tempistica degli incarichi di Mayrhuber. Il suo contratto scade alla fine del 2010, ma puo essere prorogato fino alla prossima Assemblea generale Lufthansa del 3 maggio 2011.


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Christoph Franz is expected to be named chief executive of Europe’s largest airline by revenues after a meeting of Lufthansa’s supervisory board.
Mr Franz has been widely tipped for the job since taking responsibility for the airline’s passenger business in June last year.

He will take over the leadership of Lufthansa at a time when the German airline is recovering from the severe downturn in aviation and benefiting from the boom in German exports, but still faces a host of challenges to secure its future profitability.

In his in-tray will be pending decisions on possible future acquisitions – for instance of SAS, the Scandinavian airline, which is widely tipped as a takeover target.

Mr Mayrhuber, 63, born in Austria, led an acquisition spree which saw Lufthansa taking control of Swiss airlines, Brussels Airlines, Austrian Airlines and BMI British Midland. He also initiated extensive cost saving programmes to help boost profitability in the face of increasing competition from Europe’s low-cost airlines and other global operators.

More recently, he has clashed with the German government over Berlin’s plans for a levy on air travel to help reduce public borrowings.

Mr Mayrhuber has worked for Lufthansa for more than 40 years, rising upthrough its technical and engineering operations. Mr Franz, 50, joined Lufthansa in 1990.

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