A successor for Thomas Sonntag
Unit load device (ULD) management specialist Jettainer, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa Group, has appointed Jan-Wilhelm Breithaupt as chief executive officer, effective 1 June 2024. He succeeds Thomas Sonntag, who has overseen the company’s international growth since 2019 and is leaving the Lufthansa Group at his own request on 1 July.
An experienced airfreight expert, Breithaupt has a doctorate in production logistics and has been driving industry-wide digital transformation projects and process improvement initiatives for more than 20 years. He held various positions within the Lufthansa Group and was most recently responsible for global customer service and handling management at Lufthansa Cargo.
In this role, Breithaupt pioneered various digital services for handling, including the electronic air waybill. He also drove forward the One Record initiative which was launched by the International Air Transport Association (Iata) and the digital test field air cargo project, aiming to create a standardised software to integrate data from all elements of the supply chain. (cj)