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 consists of the business segments Passenger Airlines, Logistics, MRO and Additional Businesses.
The Passenger Airlines business segment includes, on the one hand, the network airlines Lufthansa Airlines, SWISS, Austrian Airlines and Brussels Airlines. As part of a multi-hub strategy, they offer their passengers a broad range of flights from their hubs in Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich, 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, has a close relationship with SWISS.
Eurowings also belongs to the Passenger Airlines business segment. This airline provides a comprehensive range of point-to-point connections for short- and medium-haul destinations, in particular from German-speaking countries.
Additional Businesses include, in particular, Lufthansa Aviation Training and Lufthansa Systems. The Group Functions are also part of this business segment. AirPlus was sold to SEB Kort Bank AB in July 2024. ↗ Significant events.
The business segments and airlines of the Lufthansa Group are each under their own management. The Group strategy is defined and its implementation managed by the Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG or the Group Executive Committee, which largely consists of the members of the Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG and the CEOs of Lufthansa Airlines, SWISS, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Eurowings, Lufthansa Cargo and Lufthansa Technik.
The Lufthansa Group has a new Executive Board
The Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG underwent significant restructuring in the 2024 financial year. The Executive Board was reduced from six to five members and responsibilities were redistributed. ↗ Significant events.
The Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG had the following members at the end of the 2024 financial year:
- Carsten Spohr, Chairman of the Executive Board
- Michael Niggemann, responsible for Human Resources & Legal, Labour Director
- Till Streichert, responsible for Finance
- Grazia Vittadini, responsible for MRO and IT
- Dieter Vranckx, responsible for Global Markets & Commercial Management Hubs