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Press release
- 16.06.2009
- Michael Eggenschwiler new member of ACI Europe Board of Directors
Michael Eggenschwiler, CEO of Hamburg Airport is a new member of the Board of the European airport association, ACI EUROPE. The Board of Directors was inducted at today’s general assembly in Manchester.
“I am delighted to be elected to the Board of ACI EUROPE,” says Michael Eggenschwiler. The organisation is the voice of Europe’s airports and has many important issues on the agenda, from environmental protection and security issues to airport charges and slot regulations. To work through these issues at the European level, together with experienced colleagues from the aviation industry, is a challenge that I am pleased to take on.”
About Michael Eggenschwiler: Michael Eggenschwiler has been a member of the Executive Board at Hamburg Airport since 2003. A native of Switzerland, he studied business administration before beginning his career as assistant to the Executive Board at Switzerland’s Crossair airline in 1983. Eight years later, having reached the executive board himself, Michael Eggenschwiler departed Crossair for Swissair. Over a period of ten years he filled a number of senior management positions there. Michael Eggenschwiler, 50 years old, is married with two children.
ACI EUROPE is the European region of Airport Council International (ACI), the only worldwide professional association of airport operators. Based in Brussels, ACI EUROPE represents around 440 airports in 45 European countries. The member airports handle 90 per cent of European air traffic, representing nearly one and a half billion passengers per year.