PinT – People-in-Travel

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Annette Mann

New leaders at Lufthansa’s airlines

Two new CEOs at Lufthansa Group (LHG) airlines:

–Annette Mann, 43, due to take over at Austrian Airlines from March. She currently heads Corporate Responsibility at LHG. She takes over from Alexis von Hoensbroech, CEO since 2018, who is due to become CEO of Canada-based West Jet in Q1 2022. Mann joined LHG in 2003; she has also worked at LHG’s Swiss.

–Jens Ritter, 48, due to take over at Lufthansa Airlines (LH) from April. He is currently COO at Eurowings, an LHG subsidiary.

  LHG reports he is taking over from Klaus Froese, who plans to return to piloting for LH. Causing confusion, LHG also reports Carsten Spohr as LH CEO, whereas he is actually LHG CEO.

Briefs

[] Tom Buoy, chief commercial officer at Radisson Hotel Group Americas, has been named interim CEO after Jim Alderman is apparently fired.

  The Radisson Group has lost direction after a series of ownership changes – including Carlson in the US and in China the troubled HNA Group and, currently, Shanghai’s Jinjiang Group.

[] Aimen bin Ahmed Al Hosni, CEO of Oman Airports, has been voted chairman of Airports Council International; he has been vice chairman since 2018.

[] Sabre is separating the roles of President and CEO, and named Kurt Ekert president, due to take over next month; Sean Menke remains CEO. Ekert will report to Menke.

  Ekert was five years as president/CEO of the Carlson travel agency. Before that, he was EVP at the Travelport GDS, and has also worked with Gulliver’s Travel, Orbitz, Cendant (a travel holding company broken up and sold off in 2006), Continental Airlines.

[] Steve Kaufer, co-founder and CEO at Trip Advisor plans to leave in 2022; he has run the company for 21 years. He plans to stay in the job until a replacement is found.

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