Lufthansa Group CEO, Carsten Spohr, has been awarded The Wings Club Foundation’s 2024 Distinguished Achievement Award. The award, presented in New York at the 82nd Awards Gala, recognizes Mr. Spohr’s outstanding accomplishments in the field of aviation.
Past recipients include such extraordinary individuals such as astronauts John Glenn and Neil Armstrong, former President of the United States George H. W. Bush and organizations such as the U. S. Air Force.
Carsten Spohr has served as Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Lufthansa AG since May 2014. He leads the Lufthansa Group with the business segments that include Network Airlines, Eurowings, Logistics, and MRO with over 105,000 employees worldwide.
After graduating with a degree in industrial engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Mr. Spohr obtained a commercial pilot’s license at the Lufthansa Flight Training school in Bremen and Phoenix. As a member of the central junior research group, he then completed the trainee program at Deutsche Aerospace AG, Munich.
In 1994 Mr. Spohr returned to Deutsche Lufthansa and initially took over the management of central personnel marketing. He then served as Executive Assistant to the Chairman of the Executive Board until he assumed responsibility for Lufthansa’s regional partnerships in Europe.
In 2000, Mr. Spohr was appointed head of the alliance management of Deutsche Lufthansa. In this function, he was responsible for the management and coordination of Lufthansa’s worldwide cooperation partners, including the Star Alliance and regional partners.
Mr. Spohr was then appointed to the Executive Board of Lufthansa German Airlines in 2004. His responsibilities included the hub management, cabin crew and personnel management.
In 2007, Mr. Spohr was appointed Chairman of the Executive Board of Lufthansa Cargo AG. From January 2011, he was a member of the Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Chairman of the Lufthansa German Airlines Executive Board.
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