Jens Ritter will be a part of the administration of Eurowings as chief working officer on April 1st.
He’s at the moment chief working officer and a part of the prolonged administration board at Austrian Airways.
Ritter will succeed Michael Knitter, who will depart the German airline on the finish of March.
Along with Jens Bischof, chief government, and Frank Bauer, head of finance, Ritter will kind a three-member Eurowings administration board.
“We’re deeply indebted to Michael Knitter,” stated Christina Foerster, chairwoman of the Eurowings supervisory board.
“For greater than 5 years Michael Knitter has been standing for flying excellence, continuity and consistency in occasions of nice change at Eurowings.
“Knitter has arrange the flight operations organisation lately in such a approach that Eurowings is now commonly one of the vital punctual airways in Europe.”
Ritter already has worthwhile expertise as chief working officer of the Lufthansa subsidiary Austrian Airways.
He began his flying profession in 2000 with Lufthansa after finding out aerospace in Munich and coaching as an Airbus A320 pilot on the Bremen Business Aviation College.
In 2008, he switched to the Airbus A330/340 as a long-haul pilot, and in 2014 he educated at Germanwings to turn into a captain on the Airbus A320.
