New head of worldwide sales confirmed for Emirates

Former Lufthansa chief marketing officer Thierry Antinori has been confirmed as the new executive vice-president for passenger sales worldwide at Emirates.

There has been speculation for some time that the highly regarded Antinori is joining the Emirates group. He joins October 1 – seven months after he was expected to become chief executive of Austrian Airlines.

Antinori quit the Lufthansa group just days before taking up the appointment in Vienna among suggestions that he had received a better offer, but sources within the industry suggest that he had differences with the Lufthansa leadership over expectations for a turnaround for the subsidiary.

Antinori succeeds Richard Vaughan, who is due to retire.