Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) has appointed Alain Chisari as its new head of Swiss WorldCargo.

Chisari will bear overall responsibility for SWISS’s entire airfreight division of some 300 employees worldwide and for developing and implementing the division’s business strategy.

Chisari joined SWISS in 2008 having already acquired 12 years of industry experience with other airlines outside the Lufthansa Group.

He initially served as head of leisure sales before moving within SWISS to become head of external relations and alliances.

In 2013 Chisari moved to SWISS’s sister airline Edelweiss, where he spent the next five years as chief commercial officer and a member of the management board.

After a further five years serving first as the Singapore-based vice president area management Asia & Pacific for the Lufthansa Group and subsequently in the group’s Munich-based Area Management EMEA, he assumed his present function as the Lufthansa Group’s implementation officer for Italian airline ITA Airways one year ago.

Heike Birlenbach, SWISS chief commercial officer, said: “Alain Chisari brings a vast range of experience of the airline business both within and beyond the Lufthansa Group to his new position. Thanks to his various international activities, he is also excellently connected throughout our industry.

“I’m convinced that he will continue to successfully develop our air cargo business, and I look forward to working with him.”

Chisari succeeds Lorenzo Stoll who left Swiss WorldCargo at the end of July to take over as the chief executive of a Swiss healthcare company.

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