SWISS has appointed Alain Chisari as the new head of its Swiss WorldCargo airfreight division. He will take up his new duties on 1 October 2024. Chisari, who is 52, has held various SWISS and Lufthansa Group management positions since he joined SWISS in 2008. He is presently serving as the ITA Implementation Officer for the Lufthansa Group. As the new Head of Swiss WorldCargo he succeeds Lorenzo Stoll, who has decided to pursue a new professional path outside the airline industry.
Swiss International Air Lines has appointed Alain Chisari as its new Head of Swiss WorldCargo. In his new capacity, 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, who is 52, succeeds Lorenzo Stoll, who left Swiss WorldCargo at the end of July. After 11 years with SWISS, Lorenzo Stoll has decided to pursue a new professional path in a different business segment and will be taking over as CEO of a Swiss company that is active in the healthcare sector.
Alain 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 & Alliances. In 2013 he 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.
“Alain Chisari brings a vast range of experience of the airline business both within and beyond the Lufthansa Group to his new position,” says SWISS Chief Commercial Officer Heike Birlenbach. “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. I also offer Lorenzo Stoll my warmest thanks for all his service and commitment. He steered our airfreight division with great success, not least through the highly challenging pandemic times; and he and his Swiss WorldCargo team have consistently made a key contribution to our company’s favourable earnings of the past few years.”
Alain Chisari is a Swiss-Italian dual national. He holds an Executive Master’s Degree in General Management from the SGMI Institute of Management St. Gallen, and speaks fluent English, French, German, Italian and Swedish..