Corendon Airways appoints Christian Hein as new Head of Gross sales & Advertising and marketing

Christian Hein (58) has not too long ago been appointed because the newly created position of Head of Gross sales & Advertising and marketing at Corendon Airways. As the latest member of the leisure airline’s administration staff, Hein, an skilled aviation and tourism supervisor, will now assume cross-market accountability for all gross sales, advertising and marketing and communication actions. This contains promoting Corendon Airways flights in cooperation with tour operators and journey companies, in addition to particular person seat gross sales via the corporate’s personal digital channels and on-line journey companies. Hein might be primarily based each on the firm headquarters in Antalya and close to Frankfurt Airport.

“We’re working in a market surroundings with quite a few challenges. It’s now important to first consolidate the corporate to construct a basis for attaining wholesome and sustainable development,” explains Yıldıray Karaer, CEO of Corendon Airways and co-founder of the Corendon Tourism Group. “In Christian Hein, we have now discovered the perfect particular person to assist us obtain our medium- and long-term targets. We worth him as a gross sales skilled who has repeatedly confirmed his abilities all through his profession, notably in a world surroundings.”

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Christian Hein, born in Hamburg, started his profession in route planning on the Swiss airline Crossair after learning aerospace engineering in Berlin. Following roles in income administration at Lufthansa and Swiss Worldwide Air Traces, Hein initially turned Common Supervisor of Lufthansa’s Northern European enterprise and, from 2007, was liable for world enterprise clients as Director International Key Account Administration. In 2013, he moved to Eurowings the place he performed an lively position within the airline’s transformation as Senior Vice President of Gross sales. Beginning in 2016, Hein quickly labored as Director of Company Gross sales for the AXA insurance coverage group earlier than main the German illustration of MSC Cruises in Munich from April 2019 to Might 2024. These years on the cruise firm had been characterised by large growth with excessive capability development. As Managing Director, Hein succeeded in considerably growing gross sales figures in Germany.

“Corendon Airways is a extremely fascinating, professionally operated airline with the potential to additional strengthen its place with clients and enterprise companions and to proceed rising accordingly,” says Christian Hein. “I stay up for contributing my expertise and experience to assist form the way forward for the corporate.”

Corendon Airways is a European vacation airline primarily based in Antalya. From international locations such because the UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Poland, it serves direct flights to the favored vacation locations within the Mediterranean, together with Turkiye, Greece and Egypt, in addition to the Canary Islands and Morocco.

Data on the flights supplied by Corendon Airways could be discovered on the web site www.corendonairlines.com. Bookings can be made through journey companies and the Corendon Airways app (out there for iOS and Android).