Christina Foerster, former CEO of Brussels Airlines, has been appointed co-president of SN Airholding, the parent company of the Belgian company, of which she had already been a member for almost three months, the company said on Friday evening, confirming information of Standaard.
She will replace the German Thorsten Dirks, who recently announced his departure from the Lufthansa group. The former boss of Brussels Airlines will now preside over the destinies of SN Airholding alongside Jan Smets, former governor of the National Bank, who took office in mid-April to replace Etienne Davignon. The latter remained an active member of the board of directors.
According to De Tijd, with the departure of Thorsten Dirks, another stumbling block to the rescue of Brussels Airlines disappears, while Lufthansa, parent company of SN Airholding and therefore of the company, asks the federal government for 290 to 390 million d ‘euros. According to the Flemish newspaper, the lack of confidence between the Belgian negotiators and the German, chief negotiator and that Lufthansa had propelled a few years ago to the co-presidency of the company, would indeed be one of the reasons why discussions have still not reached an agreement after more than three months.
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