Swiss International Airlines (SWISS) has appointed Oliver Buchhofer to serve as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO). Buchhofer will assume his new duties – and thus also his position on the SWISS Management Board – on May 1, 2024. Buchhofer presently serves as Head of Operations and is a member of the extended management board. In his new COO capacity, Buchhofer will be responsible for ensuring the company’s safe, secure and seamless operations. His duties will extend to the strategic planning, coordination and organisation of such areas as the cockpit and cabin crew corps, training, maintenance, repair and overhaul) and ground services.
SWISS has also appointed a new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Dennis Weber will succeed Markus Binkert as SWISS’ CFO on May 1, 2024. Weber has been Head of Investor Relations at Lufthansa Group since 2018, in overall charge of all the capital market communications of the Lufthansa Group. After studying business administration in Bamberg (Germany) and Sydney (Australia), he began his professional career at Adidas AG. Prior to joining the Lufthansa Group, he also served as Head of Investor Relations at Hugo Boss AG from 2010 to 2018.
