Executive Vice President
CurrentHolger Blankenstein is Executive Vice President of Volaris Airlines in charge of the Commercial areas, Operations, Customer Service and IT. He is also a member of the Executive Committee at Volaris.Prior to his current role Blankenstein was the Chief Commercial Officer, responsible for the top line of the company and Information Technology. He was part of the team that took the Volaris public in 2013.Blankenstein is a founding ambassador of the Volaris team, involved both in the setting up the organization and starting the airline in 2005/2006.Prior to that, 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. He is an alumni of the German/Spanish School in Madrid, Spain.He is a passionate tennis player and world traveler, fluent in English, Spanish and German.Specialties: Marketing, Revenue Management, Cargo, Sales, Strategy, Projects