Holger Blankenstein

Holger Blankenstein has been the Executive Vice President since November 2017, in charge of the commercial, digital, operations, customer service and maintenance areas of the company. Prior to his current role, Blankenstein was the Chief Commercial Officer leading the areas of sales, marketing, planning, itineraries, revenue management and cargo and leading the IT department. Blankenstein was part of the team that took the airline public in 2013; he has been with Volaris since its inception in 2005, as one of the founding members of the team he was involved both in the setting up and launching of the airline. Before 2005, he was Director of Strategic Development at TACA International Airlines in El Salvador, from 2003 to 2005, where he led many key projects such as the integrated airline systems migration, TACA’s maintenance business growth strategy and the business plan for Volaris. He began his career as a consultant for Bain & Company in 1998 in the Munich office. Blankenstein transferred to the Sydney office in 2000. He was involved with assignments in financial services, automotive and retail industries. Blankenstein earned an MBA from the University of Iowa and a graduate degree in business and economics from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.