Lufthansa Group has appointed Nadia Sarah Petri as its new general manager sales for Kuwait.

Based in Kuwait City, she will be responsible for all commercial and sales activities for the Kuwaiti market.

Petri first started working for Lufthansa in 2007 within the ground operations division at the airline’s largest hub in Frankfurt. In 2014, she became manager sales steering and business development sales Europe for the Lufthansa Group. During that time, Petri was in charge of analysing business and market developments as well as trends within the European aviation industry. Afterwards in 2015, Petri took over a new position as the assistant to the vice president sales Europe, Middle East and Africa for the Lufthansa Group. Her responsibilities involved managing numerous key projects, steering and further developing a region of 74 countries, in support of the vice president sales.  She remained in this position until her recent promotion.

Petri will be reporting to Karsten Zang, senior director sales Gulf, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, Lufthansa Group. She succeeds Stefan Schwarz, who held the position for three years and has already started his new assignment as project manager in the area management for Europe, Middle East and Africa in Frankfurt. - TradeArabia News Service