Edi Wolfensberger, previously Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Brussels Airlines, will join the management of Eurowings as Chief Operating Officer on April 1, 2022.

He is responsible for the areas of Crew Operations, Flight Operations, Ground & Customer Operations, Safety, Security & Compliance Monitoring, Lean Management, Digitalization & Processes as well as Technical Fleet Management/Eurowings Technik. As a member of a three-person management board headed by CEO Jens Bischof, Wolfensberger will succeed Jens Ritter, who will become the new CEO of Lufthansa Airlines. “As COO of Brussels, Edi Wolfensberger has everything you need for this position. I'm sure that he will continue to push ahead with the modernization of Eurowings Operations initiated by Jens Ritter and enrich it with new elements," says Jens Bischof, CEO of Eurowings.

Edi Wolfensberger began his career in the aviation industry in 2007 as a maintenance and technical controller at Swiss International Airlines. He has been Chief Operating Officer at Brussels Airlines since 2019 and heads the operational departments Flight Operations, Maintenance & Engineering, Ground Operations and Safety and Security. He also acts as Accountable Manager of the Belgian airline. Previously, Wolfensberger was Managing Director of Lufthansa Aviation Training Switzerland AG, where he built up the cooperation between the newly merged companies within the Lufthansa Aviation Training Group from 2017 to 2019.