Jaan Albrecht Accepts Position as CEO of SunExpress

Jaan Albrecht, who has been the CEO of Austrian Airlines since November 2011, has accepted a position at SunExpress, a joint venture of Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines, and will serve as its CEO starting June 1, 2015. Albrecht (60) will remain CEO of Austrian Airlines until the end of May 2015. Austrian Airlines says that it will make a decision on Albrecht’s successor at a later date. “The decision to ask Jaan Albrecht to assume a new position within the Lufthansa Group was not easy for us“, says Harry Hohmeister, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Austrian Airlines. “After all,