Effective May 1st 2019, Frank Naeve will become Vice President of Sales, The Americas, Lufthansa Group. Based at the company’s U.S. headquarters in East Meadow, New York, he will be responsible for the Group’s passenger airline organization in North and South America, spearheading sales in what is the Lufthansa Group’s most important international region outside the European home markets.
In this new position, Naeve will be instrumental in managing the commercial cooperation that the Lufthansa Group passenger airlines have with United Airlines and Air Canada under the transatlantic Joint Venture agreement, the world’s leading airline collaboration of its type. In the Americas region, the Lufthansa Group Passenger Airlines currently operate a robust network of over 670 weekly frequencies to 25 destinations in the U.S. and Canada and 72 weekly frequencies to 11 destinations in nine Central & South American countries.
“With Frank Naeve, we have an extremely experienced and accomplished manager with a breadth of international experience,” said Heike Birlenbach, Lufthansa Group Senior Vice President of Sales, Lufthansa Group Airlines and Chief Commercial Officer Hub Frankfurt. “I have full confidence that the Lufthansa Group Americas region will continue to flourish under his leadership.”…
