Edelweiss’ CEO, Bernd Bauer, will become CEO of Eurowings Discover in addition to his current role, while Wolfgang Raebiger will focus on his role as COO and Accountable Manager at Eurowings Discover.
On Wednesday (September 14, 2022), the Lufthansa Group announced an expansion of management roles at Edelweiss and Eurowings Discover, as the Group increases their leisure market offering. In addition to his current role as CEO of Edelweiss, Bernd Bauer will also become CEO of Eurowings Discover. Mr. Bauer has been the CEO of Switzerland-based Edelweiss since 2014 and will assume his additional role at Eurowings Discover on October 1st, 2022. Wolfgang Raebiger will focus on duties as Chief Operations Officer (COO) and Accountable Manager at Eurowings Discover. Both airlines will remain independent.
Edelweiss has vast, decades-long experience in the tourism sector and is the leading Swiss leisure airline based at Zurich Airport. Eurowings Discover in Germany was designed along the same lines as Edelweiss. Together with the management teams at Eurowings Discover in Frankfurt and at Edelweiss in Zurich, Bernd Bauer will further accelerate the Lufthansa Group’s tourist segment offering. At Eurowings Discover, Helmut Woelfel will remain Chief Commercial Officer, while at Edelweiss, David Birrer will remain COO and Patrick Heymann the company’s CCO.
Together, Eurowings Discover and Edelweiss will focus on short, medium and long-haul tourist destinations, complementing the Group’s network airlines’ offerings. With Edelweiss based at the SWISS hub in Zurich and Eurowings Discover operating from Frankfurt and Munich, the leisure carriers offer customers expanded choices when booking travel to popular tourist destinations.
Source: Lufthansa Group