Lufthansa manager Jens Fehlinger has been appointed head of the Swiss Airlines Group subsidiary.
At 43, he will take office on October 1 and will succeed Dieter Vranckx, who will join the management board of the Lufthansa group on July 1, 2024, the group announced on Friday. Fehlinger began his career in 2006 within the Lufthansa Group and took on numerous management roles in the following years. In particular, he led the strategy and commercial development of Lufthansa Airlines. Most recently, Fehlinger managed the airline Lufthansa Cityline as co-CEO and at the same time established the new airline Lufthansa City Airlines.
Fehlinger holds an airline pilot’s license for the Airbus A320 and currently flies for Lufthansa Cityline. The father of two studied aircraft systems engineering and management in Bremen and transport at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Until Fehlinger takes up his new position in October, Swiss board member Heike Birlenbach will temporarily head the Lufthansa subsidiary.
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