Airberlin has largely completed the substantial restructuring of the airberlin Management Team by February 22nd, 2016. With Neil Mills as the new CSPO and Oliver Iffert as the new COO airberlin has been able to get two internationally experienced top executives on board. Neil Mills has been appointed Chief Strategy & Planning Officer (CSPO), taking over responsibility for Network Planning and Alliances, Procurement and the subsidiaries Leisure Cargo and airberlin technik as well as Facility Management.

Most recently he joined the Philippine Airlines Group as Chief Executive Advisor to lead their turnaround team. Oliver Iffert was appointed Chief Operations Officer (COO) of airberlin Flight Operations, Cabin Crew, Network Operations, Airport Operations and Maintenance Systems. Oliver started his career as First Officer B737 with airberlin in 1997 and worked for LTU until 2004. After that he changed to Etihad Airways where he held various functions, most recently as Vice President Flight Operations.

Captain Iffert brings more then 20 years of experience on board commercial airplanes and currently flies the Airbus A330/340.