Business activities and Group structure
Lufthansa Group is a leading European airline group
The Lufthansa Group is an aviation group with operations worldwide. It plays a leading role in its European home market.
The Lufthansa Group comprises the Passenger Airlines and Aviation Services segments.
The Passenger Airlines segment includes, on the one hand, the network airlines Lufthansa Airlines, SWISS, Austrian Airlines and Brussels Airlines. As part of the multi-hub strategy, they offer their passengers a broad range of flights from their global hubs in Frankfurt, Munich and Zurich as well as their national hubs in Vienna and Brussels. Lufthansa Airlines also has close relationships with the regional airlines Lufthansa CityLine, Lufthansa City Airlines and Air Dolomiti as well as Discover Airlines, the Lufthansa Group’s holiday airline. Edelweiss, the leading Swiss holiday airline, is a sister company of SWISS.
Furthermore, Eurowings also belongs to the Passenger Airlines segment. This airline provides a comprehensive range of direct connections for European short- and medium-haul destinations, in particular from German-speaking countries.
Aviation Services comprises the segments Logistics and MRO, as well as Additional Businesses, which in particular include Lufthansa Aviation Training and Lufthansa Systems. An agreement to sell AirPlus was signed in 2023. The Group Functions are also part of this segment.
The former Catering segment was dissolved at the close of the financial year 2023 following the sale of the LSG group to Aurelius.
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The business segments and airlines of the Lufthansa Group are each under their own management. The Group strategy is defined and its implementation managed through the Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG or the Group Executive Committee, which essentially consists of the members of the Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG and the CEOs of the main companies.
Six-member Executive Board manages Deutsche Lufthansa AG
The Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG had six members at the end of the 2023 financial year: Carsten Spohr is the Chairman of the Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Christina Foerster is responsible for the “Brand and Sustainability” portfolio, Harry Hohmeister is responsible for the “Global Markets & Network” portfolio, Detlef Kayser heads up the “Fleet & Technology” portfolio, Michael Niggemann is in charge of the “Human Resources & Infrastructure” portfolio and is the Labor Director, and Remco Steenbergen manages the “Finance” portfolio.
The Supervisory Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG voted to carry out a wide-ranging reorganisation of the Executive Board at its meeting on 22 March 2024. The Executive Board is to be reduced from six to five members and responsibilities edistributed. ↗ Events after the reporting date
The Supervisory Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG voted to carry out a wide-ranging reorganisation of the Executive Board at its meeting on 22 March 2024. The Executive Board is to be reduced from six to five members
and responsibilities redistributed. ↗ Events after the reporting date