airberlin has announced the appointment of Julio Rodriguez as chief commercial officer, Captain Oliver Lackmann as chief flight operations officer and Marco Ciomperlik as chief production officer, effective June 1, 2015. Julio Rodriguez will take over responsibility for Sales, Revenue Management and E-Commerce - a centrepiece of airberlin's restructuring. Rodriguez is currently the CCO of the Spanish low-cost airline Vueling.

Rodriguez joined the aviation industry in 2006 and was previously a senior consultant at Boston Consulting Group. The expanded management team will be complemented by Ole Orver (49), the new Senior vice president of Network Strategy Planning, who until further notice will report 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.