Air Berlin has made two new appointments as part of the company's restructuring, gaining two internationally experienced airline industry executives on its management team: Desi Barkhuizen and Ole Orver will take the positions of Senior Vice President Revenue Management & Pricing and Senior Vice President Network Strategy Planning. Effective July 01, 2015, Desi Barkhuizen will rejoin airberlin as Senior Vice President Revenue Management & Pricing, reporting directly to the COO, Julio Rodriguez. She served previously at airberlin as SVP Revenue Management & Pricing on secondment from Etihad Airways from September 2012 to September 2013.

Desi joins airberlin from Etihad Airways where she held the position of VP Revenue Management for the past five years. Also effective July the management team will be complemented by Ole Orver, the new Senior Vice President of Network Strategy Planning, who until further notice reports directly to the CEO. Orver was most recently Senior Vice President Corporate Planning at Qatar Airways, and previously held various management positions at LOT Polish Airlines and the SAS Group.