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  • Lufthansa Group appoints new GM Sales

    Lufthansa Group has appointed Mrs. Adenike Macaulay General Manager Sales Nigeria & Equatorial Guinea.

    She will be responsible for all the commercial and sales activities of the Lufthansa Group Airlines in Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea, being the first female and Nigerian to take this position.

    Macaulay started her career at Lufthansa in 2009 as a business analyst for West Africa responsible for regional results analysis, market and ad-hoc reporting, competitor monitoring and sales planning.

    In 2010, she took over leadership of the team as Regional Marketing Manager, directing marketing activities as well as business analysis, pricing and sales support across seven regions in West & Central Africa.

    Five years later, Mrs. Macaulay assumed the position of Senior Manager, Customer, Products and Marketing for Sub-Sahara Africa, directing customer relations, product management and marketing activities across Sub-Sahara Africa.

    In 2017, her position transitioned into Head Sales, Products and Programs, where she was responsible for the development and optimization of sales products, B2B incentive programs, sales promotions and sales service processes, across the Sub-Sahara Africa region.

    She said: “I look forward to a co-operative relationship with our trade partners and continuing the good work of my predecessor in serving our esteemed passengers.”

    In her new appointment, Mrs. Macaulay will be based in Lagos, succeeding Mr. Robin Sohdi, who held the position since January 2016.

     

     

     

  • Lufthansa appoints first female Nigerian general manager

    Lufthansa  Group  has appointed a Nigerian, Mrs. Adenike Macaulay, as the General Manager, Sales Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea, Lufthansa Group. Macaulay will be responsible for all the commercial and sales activities of the Lufthansa Group Airlines in Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea, being the first female and Nigerian to take this position.

    Macaulay started her career at Lufthansa in 2009 as a business analyst for West Africa, responsible for regional result analysis, market and ad-hoc reporting, competitor monitoring and sales planning.

    In 2010, she took over leadership of the team as Regional Marketing Manager, directing marketing activities as well as business analysis, pricing and sales support across seven regions in West and Central Africa.

    Five years later, Mrs. Macaulay assumed the position of Senior Manager, Customer, Products and Marketing for Sub-Sahara Africa, directing customer relations, product management and marketing activities across Sub-Sahara Africa. In 2017, her position transitioned into Head Sales, Products and Programs, where she was responsible for the development and optimization of sales products, B2B incentive programmes, sales promotions and sales service processes, across the Sub-Sahara Africa region.

    “I look forward to a co-operative relationship with our trade partners and continuing the good work of my predecessor in serving our esteemed passengers,” says Mrs. Macaulay.

    In her new appointment, Mrs. Macaulay will be based in Lagos,  succeeding Mr. Robin Sohdi who held this position since the beginning of January 2016.

    Mrs. Macaulay will report to Mr. Philippe Saeys-Desmedt, Senior Director Sales Sub-Saharan Africa, Lufthansa Group based in Brussels, the new regional Headquarters for Lufthansa Group Sub-Sahara Africa.

  • Airlines get ready for new U.S. security rules on Thursday

    Airlines get ready for new U.S. security rules on Thursday

    New security measures including stricter passenger screening take effect on Thursday on all U.S.-bound flights to comply with government requirements designed to avoid an in-cabin ban on laptop computers, airlines said.

    Airlines said the new measures, which could include short security interviews with passengers, would be in place by Thursday.

    They will affect 325,000 airline passengers on about 2,000 commercial flights arriving daily in the U.S., on 180 airlines from 280 airports in 105 countries.

    The U.S. announced the new rules in June to end its restrictions on carry-on electronic devices on planes coming from 10 airports in eight countries in the Middle East and North Africa in response to unspecified security threats.

    Those restrictions were lifted in July, but the Trump administration said it could re-impose measures on a case-by-case basis if airlines and airports did not boost security.

    European and U.S. officials said that airlines had 120 days to comply with the measures, including increased passenger screening. The 120-day deadline is Thursday.

    Airlines had until late July to expand explosive trace detection testing.

    Lufthansa Group said on Tuesday the measures would be in place by Thursday and travelers could face short interviews at check-in or at the gate.

    Economy passengers on Lufthansa’s Swiss airline have been asked to check in at least 90 minutes before departure.

    Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. said it would suspend in-town check-in and self bag-drop services for passengers booked on direct flights to the U.S.

    The airline said passengers would also have short security interviews and it has advised travelers to arrive three hours before departure.

    Airlines for America, a U.S. trade group, said the changes “are complex security measures” but praised U.S. officials for giving airlines flexibility in meeting the new rules.

    Association of Asia Pacific Airlines Director-General, Andrew Herdman, said having a globally coordinated security approach made more sense than having destination-specific requirements.

    “This is not a positive,” he said of the U.S. measures at an industry conference in Taipei. “It adds complexity.”

    U.S. authorities in June also increased security around aircraft and in passenger areas, and other places where travelers can be cleared by U.S. officials before they depart.

    A Transportation Security Administration ( TSA ) spokeswoman declined to discuss the specific changes but said “the U.S. continues to work with our partners to raise the baseline of global aviation security and keep the entire traveling public safe.”

    The TSA said in July it was imposing new security rules requiring U.S. domestic airline travelers to remove all electronic items larger than mobile phones such as tablets, e-readers and video game consoles from carry-on baggage for screening.

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  • Lufthansa Group achieves record number of passengers in 2015

    Lufthansa Group achieves record number of passengers in 2015

    Lufthansa Group transported 107.7 million passengers in 2015, a new record for the company. The group carried 1.6 per cent more passengers than in the previous year. At the same time the company carried out more than one million flights and achieved the highest ever seat load factor of 80.4 per cent. This corresponds to an increase in capacity utilization of 0.3 percentage points compared to 2014.

    The Lufthansa Group, in a release, said it has invested heavily in the improvement of its offers and services throughout the past few years. As part of this, 17 new aircraft were taken into service by the Lufthansa Group last year.

    The Lufthansa Group airlines’ fleet will be amended by a further 251 jets over the next ten years. Additionally, the comfort of travel has been noticeably enhanced through cabin refurbishment in all classes, improvements in on-board services and the availability of the FlyNet broadband internet connection. With these improvements, the group was able to markedly increase demand and to convince more customers than ever before to fly with one of its airlines.

    Deutsche Lufthansa AG is an aviation group comprising nearly 540 subsidiaries and affiliates. The Lufthansa Group is dedicated to quality,  innovation, safety and reliability. Headquartered in Germany, the group operates in five business segments  passenger transportation (Passenger Airline Group), logistics, MRO, catering and IT-services.

    Passenger transportation is the group’s core business: The airlines engaged in the passenger transportation business are Lufthansa German Airlines (including Lufthansa Regional), Austrian Airlines, SWISS and Germanwings as well as stakeholdings in Brussels Airlines, JetBlue and Sun Express.

    In the 2014 business year, the airlines in the Lufthansa Group welcomed nearly 106 million passengers on board their flights, making it Europe’s leading airline grouping.

    Operating through the Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna, Zurich and Brussels hubs, Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian Airlines and Brussels Airlines jointly serve 321 destinations in 103 countries on four continents this summer.

    The group fleet currently consists of 615 aircraft  on order are another 263 new aircraft, valued at a total of about 37 billion euros at list price and scheduled for delivery until 2025.