Airline boss Ralf Teckentrup is said to have influenced the aviation industry the most last year.
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Every year the specialist magazine of the air industry chooses aerotelegraph.com, the high-flyer of the year. Indeed, 2019 was a turbulent year for the industry – the prominent bankruptcy of Thomas Cook, the parent company of the airline Condor, made waves. Unsurprisingly, the worst case scenario for the world’s oldest travel company also has an impact on one of the most important elections in the industry, as the result of the high-flyer election on Monday showed.
Head of bankruptcy survivors Condor has shaped the industry most in 2019
The majority of the aero telegraph-Readers and an expert jury voted Ralf Teckentrup, the head of the Thomas Cook subsidiary Condor, as “high-flyer of the year 2019”.
Condor managed to use a protective shield procedure to save itself from being brought into bankruptcy with the parent company. Thanks to a state-backed loan of 380 million euros, it continued to fly and achieved better punctuality values than in previous years.
Difficult times for aviation: Condor and Eurowings are dismantling
The majority of Condor employees also remained motivated, even if times remain easy – only at the weekend it became known that both at Condor and at euro Wings Jobs to be dismantled on a large scale. Like the German online magazine, for example reisetopia reported that Condor and the Lufthansa subsidiary airline will soon want to part with several employees. Condor had already dismissed 170 employees from the administration, and now jobs for flight attendants in particular are to be cut.
44 percent for Condor boss
Nevertheless: In view of the difficult situation, being able to stay out of the mega-bankruptcy at all seems impressive, and the readers of the aero telegraph honored that. Far more than 2200 voted and chose Condor boss Ralf Teckentrup with a clear majority of 44 percent as “high flyer of the year 2019”.
The aero telegraphThe jury agreed with the verdict and added that “the election is also representative of all employees who keep the airline going”. Now it is up to the airline to find an investor by spring.
Greta Thunberg with billionaire Branson in third place
In second place in the readers’ vote was followed by Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury, who took the helm of the aviation giant in a rather difficult time with 12 percent of the votes and since then has managed to bring a bit of stability to the group. Third place is shared by billionaire Richard Branson and climate activist Greta Thunberg, each with 11 percent of the vote.
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