Matthias Spohr, lately Managing Director of Lufthansa Aviation Coaching GmbH, will sign up for the Government Board of Eurowings as Leader Running Officer (COO) on 1 October 2026. He’s going to be answerable for Workforce Operations, Flight Operations, Flooring & Buyer Operations, Protection, Safety & Compliance Tracking, Lean Control, Digitalisation & Processes, in addition to Technical Fleet Control/Eurowings Technik. As a member of the three-person Government Board headed by means of CEO Max Kownatzki, Spohr will prevail Edi Wolfensberger. Wolfensberger will develop into the brand new CEO of Edelweiss, Switzerland’s main recreational airline, which could also be a part of the Lufthansa Team.
For Matthias Spohr, Eurowings is acquainted territory: from 2015 to 2021, he served as Head of Flight Operations at Eurowings Germany and as Nominated Individual Flight Operations. Matthias Spohr started his occupation in aviation in 1990 by means of finishing his coaching at Lufthansa’s flight faculty in Bremen. Whilst looking forward to a place at Lufthansa, he studied economics at Ruhr College Bochum, graduating with a point in economics. From 1995 onwards, Spohr flew Airbus A320 and A340 airplane for Lufthansa. In 2005, he skilled as an A320 captain with Condor Berlin. Spohr joined Germanwings in 2013 as Head of the A320 fleet.
At Lufthansa Aviation Coaching (LAT), Matthias Spohr used to be accountable from 2021 onwards for the restructuring and a success relaunch of the Eu Flight Academy. He additionally equipped key impetus for the expansion and additional construction of LAT’s different corporations. This incorporated, specifically, the trendy and environment friendly construction of pilot coaching during the strategic realignment of the teacher fashion, the strengthening of recent trade spaces and the consolidation of extra trade actions inside the product department ‘Past Aviation Coaching’. General, those measures considerably sharpened LAT’s positioning and function inside the Lufthansa Team.
Matthias Spohr, 56, is married and has 3 kids.
