At the beginning of August 2015, Uwe Kattwinkel will become the new senior vice president communications at airberlin. Uwe Kattwinkel will report directly to CEO Stefan Pichler. He takes over from Aage Dünhaupt, who has decided to leave airberlin to pursue new challenges.

Aage Dünhaupt will continue to serve as a consultant for airberlin. In 1995, Uwe Kattwinkel took over as Head of Corporate Communications at Robinson Club GmbH and other hotel companies under TUI Deutschland, and in 1999 he became a freelance communications consultant. From 2004 to 2013, he headed Corporate Communications at TUI AG and then returned to freelance communications consultancy.