Johan Lundgren appointed CEO for easyJet

dutchflyboi · Fri Nov 10, 2017 11:36 am

From internal communications:
"Johan Lundgren will be joining the Board as a director and CEO on 1 December and Carolyn will step down as CEO and from the Board on 30 November. She will remain with the airline until 31 December to assist with the transition.

Johan has over 30 years’ experience in the travel sector, the last 12 of which were with TUI Group where he was Group Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Executive Officer, Mainstream Markets."

Official press release: http://otp.investis.com/clients/uk/easy ... sid=949031

777222LR · Fri Nov 10, 2017 11:39 am

For those who don't know, Johan Lundgren was the person that started Airliners.net. I have been on this site (different username) since 1997. Back in the AOL dialup days!

ap305 · Fri Nov 10, 2017 11:52 am

The same Johan?

Good for him.....

oldannyboy · Fri Nov 10, 2017 11:53 am

Amazing news. That is one very talented individual I highly respect and admire and who REALLY has a ton of knowledge of the ins and the outs of the industry.

thomasphoto60 · Fri Nov 10, 2017 11:57 am

777222LR wrote:
For those who don't know, Johan Lundgren was the person that started Airliners.net. I have been on this site (different username) since 1997. Back in the AOL dialup days!

Ditto.....Been a member since 98 and I definitely recall A.Net’s early days under Mr Lundgren.

Good Luck, Johan

Revelation · Fri Nov 10, 2017 12:00 pm

Interesting: upcoming airline manager/executive by day, web site hacker by night.

Glad to hear he's doing so well!

Congratulations, Johan!

SpaceshipDC10 · Fri Nov 10, 2017 12:03 pm

dutchflyboi wrote:
From internal communications:
"Johan Lundgren will be joining the Board as a director and CEO on 1 December and Carolyn will step down as CEO and from the Board on 30 November. She will remain with the airline until 31 December to assist with the transition.

Johan has over 30 years’ experience in the travel sector, the last 12 of which were with TUI Group where he was Group Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Executive Officer, Mainstream Markets."

Official press release: http://otp.investis.com/clients/uk/easy ... sid=949031

Is it really him? http://www.tuitravelplc.com/content/johan-lundgren-2

thomasphoto60 · Fri Nov 10, 2017 12:13 pm

SpaceshipDC10 wrote:
dutchflyboi wrote:
From internal communications:
"Johan Lundgren will be joining the Board as a director and CEO on 1 December and Carolyn will step down as CEO and from the Board on 30 November. She will remain with the airline until 31 December to assist with the transition.

Johan has over 30 years’ experience in the travel sector, the last 12 of which were with TUI Group where he was Group Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Executive Officer, Mainstream Markets."

Official press release: http://otp.investis.com/clients/uk/easy ... sid=949031

Is it really him? http://www.tuitravelplc.com/content/johan-lundgren-2

Ahhhh....now at long last the face of so many photo rejections. :wave:

Again, good luck, Johan...

Slash787 · Fri Nov 10, 2017 12:21 pm

So from Airliners.net to the CEO of Easy Jet, that is pretty cool. Does he still posts on here?

787Driver · Fri Nov 10, 2017 12:23 pm

Could be more than one Johan Lundgren out there ya know..

vfw614 · Fri Nov 10, 2017 12:27 pm

easyJet's Johan Lundgren has 30 years experience in the travel industry, while airliners.net's Johan Lundgren was an IT student in Lulea 20 years ago (who apparently did not finish university, but, so I understand, went on to work more or less full time on a.net until he sold it in 2007). Doesn't really fit.

ap305 · Fri Nov 10, 2017 12:31 pm

vfw614 wrote:
easyJet's Johan Lundgren has 30 years experience in the travel industry, while airliners.net's Johan Lundgren was an IT student in Lulea 20 years ago (who apparently did not finish university, but, so I understand, went on to work more or less full time on a.net until he sold it in 2007). Doesn't really fit.

I have my doubts too... Not that any of us armchair Ceos would not make a good real life one... :bigthumbsup:

LAX772LR · Fri Nov 10, 2017 12:33 pm

Ha! OP took the Swedish equivalent of "Mike Smith" or "Jake Jones" and assumed it to be a thing. :razz:

Nah, here ya go.....

A.net Johan:

This CEO Johan:

dcaviation · Fri Nov 10, 2017 12:35 pm

Its not the same Johan. A.net Johan is now ~40, so he would have to start working for the airlines at the age of 10.

scbriml · Fri Nov 10, 2017 1:00 pm

787Driver wrote:
Could be more than one Johan Lundgren out there ya know..

Just maybe. :wink2:

The name is probably the Swedish equivalent of John Smith in the UK.

dcaviation wrote:
Its not the same Johan. A.net Johan is now ~40, so he would have to start working for the airlines at the age of 10.

Which just shows how talented he really is! :yes:

Bostrom · Fri Nov 10, 2017 1:24 pm

scbriml wrote:
787Driver wrote:
Could be more than one Johan Lundgren out there ya know..

Just maybe.

The name is probably the Swedish equivalent of John Smith in the UK.

Almost at least, there are 20 376 persons called Lundgren in Sweden, making it the 28th most common surname, and the 8th most common surname not ending in -son. And Johan is a very popular first name.

thomasphoto60 · Fri Nov 10, 2017 1:25 pm

LAX772LR wrote:
Ha! OP took the Swedish equivalent of "Mike Smith" or "Jake Jones" and assumed it to be a thing.

Nah, here ya go.....

A.net Johan:

This CEO Johan:

Wow thats a revelation. Frankly, Johan was a mystery to many here as kept a fairly low profile. I personally do not recall seeing any photos of him posted anywhere, nor was I aware of his age range.

SpaceshipDC10 · Fri Nov 10, 2017 1:30 pm

LAX772LR wrote:
Ha! OP took the Swedish equivalent of "Mike Smith" or "Jake Jones" and assumed it to be a thing.

Nah, here ya go.....

A.net Johan:

This CEO Johan:

This is what I thought...

lee757 · Fri Nov 10, 2017 5:33 pm

I thought the other Tui stalwart - Chris Browne, would have got this.

But good luck to Johan.

Will Stelios like him though???

Revelation · Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:18 pm

dcaviation wrote:
Its not the same Johan. A.net Johan is now ~40, so he would have to start working for the airlines at the age of 10.

Aww, and we were having so much fun imaging a web site hacker becoming CEO of easyJet!

thomasphoto60 wrote:
Wow thats a revelation. Frankly, Johan was a mystery to many here as kept a fairly low profile. I personally do not recall seeing any photos of him posted anywhere, nor was I aware of his age range.

Hey, leave me out of this!

In any case, I miss many features of "his" forum software. Yes, I know he just modified some one else's code but it did a bunch of things no other forum software did.

anstar · Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:44 pm

lee757 wrote:
I thought the other Tui stalwart - Chris Browne, would have got this.

But good luck to Johan.

Will Stelios like him though???

Dont think it matters much as he is not the majority owner anymore. Stellios has pretty much been against everything easyjet management has done for the past 6 or 7 years.

LAX772LR · Fri Nov 10, 2017 9:01 pm

thomasphoto60 wrote:
Wow thats a revelation. Frankly, Johan was a mystery to many here as kept a fairly low profile. I personally do not recall seeing any photos of him posted anywhere, nor was I aware of his age range.

Not really. Henrik was the secretive/reclusive one.

Johan participated in a few of the early self-pic threads, and turned up elsewhere as well.

kabq737 · Fri Nov 10, 2017 9:22 pm

LAX772LR wrote:
thomasphoto60 wrote:
Wow thats a revelation. Frankly, Johan was a mystery to many here as kept a fairly low profile. I personally do not recall seeing any photos of him posted anywhere, nor was I aware of his age range.

Not really. Henrik was the secretive/reclusive one.

Johan participated in a few of the early self-pic threads, and turned up elsewhere as well.

I miss the good ol days...This website used to be so cool...

texdravid · Fri Nov 10, 2017 9:40 pm

No the real deal is Sean Mendis who went from poster to running an airline in Africa.

fraspotter · Fri Nov 10, 2017 9:41 pm

Haha when I first read the title I thought "wow I wonder if this sets some sort of record for youngest airline CEO" but alas it didn't turn out to be him. I joined in 2004 after having read the forums since late 2001 but I remember reading back then that Johan was a university student in Sweden at the time. Speaking of a.net members going off and doing things in the industry I seem to recall years ago a member was either one of the owners or on the board of Arkia airlines in Israel. Anyone remember that far back?

SRforever · Fri Nov 10, 2017 9:46 pm

I'll nominate this thread for most ridiculous thread ever.

LAX772LR · Fri Nov 10, 2017 9:47 pm

kabq737 wrote:
I miss the good ol days...This website used to be so cool...

Me too.

The days of B747-437B, ConcordeBoy, CaptOevur, MSYTristar, WideBodyPhotog, B747Captain, TDSCanuck, etc.

Witnessed some friends I'd met here get married:
N1120a

Witness some people I'd gotten to know, sadly lose their life:
JKW777 (r.i.p.)

We even went through a time when a fake persona somehow wound its way into becoming a head moderator:
Diamond

.....man, this site used to be so incredible back in the day!

texdravid wrote:
No the real deal is Sean Mendis who went from poster to running an airline in Africa.

He's run several airlines (in both Africa and the Middle East) in fact.

But then again, it's not like he was some random poster who got picked to run an airline.
He comes from a family well connected to aviation, and pursued that goal for himself in both his education and occupation. Awesome that he made it happen.

SheikhDjibouti · Fri Nov 10, 2017 10:20 pm

......As soon as I heard that Easyjet's new CEO was a safe pair of hands......
......... I suddenly remembered where I had seen him before....

usxguy · Sat Nov 11, 2017 12:01 am

you'd be surprised to find out who posts/lurks here, a bunch of us at a conference were talking about this site and rec.travel.air. Was surprised to find out even some Wall Street analysts used to post here. Sean isn't the only one who is/was in a high level role. Sean + 2 other users on this site were behind the other bid for TWA when AA announced DIP financing.

I still remember the Self Pic thread when a spotter in the UK outted herself as a girl and I swore everyone on here, well. It was hilarious. I forgot her screen name, but I swear people were asking her to marry her just off her pic.

And then of course Scottysai... um. Can we even say his name? Although I believe Cubsrule found him as a person posting with a single character as a username.

But, it wouldn't surprise me if Johan is in the business and in a good spot in the food chain.

LAX772LR · Sat Nov 11, 2017 12:18 am

usxguy wrote:
And then of course Scottysai... um. Can we even say his name? Although I believe Cubsrule found him as a person posting with a single character as a username.

He's still around, and active on quite a few Fbook aviation groups, particularly PHX Spotters.

727LOVER · Sat Nov 11, 2017 3:13 am

usxguy wrote:
And then of course Scottysai... um. Can we even say his name? .

OMG...you just brought back so many memories.....hehe

I miss that kid.

By the way....where did the OP make the Johan connection...I don't see where he did. He was just announcing that BLA BLA was named the new CEO of Easyhet

thomasphoto60 · Sat Nov 11, 2017 4:08 am

LAX772LR wrote:
kabq737 wrote:
I miss the good ol days...This website used to be so cool...

Me too.

The days of B747-437B, ConcordeBoy, CaptOevur, MSYTristar, WideBodyPhotog, B747Captain, TDSCanuck, etc.

Witnessed some friends I'd met here get married:
N1120a

Witness some people I'd gotten to know, sadly lose their life:
JKW777 (r.i.p.)

We even went through a time when a fake persona somehow wound its way into becoming a head moderator:
Diamond

.....man, this site used to be so incredible back in the day!

texdravid wrote:
No the real deal is Sean Mendis who went from poster to running an airline in Africa.

He's run several airlines (in both Africa and the Middle East) in fact.

But then again, it's not like he was some random poster who got picked to run an airline.
He comes from a family well connected to aviation, and pursued that goal for himself in both his education and occupation. Awesome that he made it happen.

Yep, A.Net back in the day would really get "Wild-n-Wooly"...... good times.....

blink182 · Sat Nov 11, 2017 5:32 am

thomasphoto60 wrote:
LAX772LR wrote:
kabq737 wrote:
I miss the good ol days...This website used to be so cool...

Me too.

The days of B747-437B, ConcordeBoy, CaptOevur, MSYTristar, WideBodyPhotog, B747Captain, TDSCanuck, etc.

Witnessed some friends I'd met here get married:
N1120a

Witness some people I'd gotten to know, sadly lose their life:
JKW777 (r.i.p.)

We even went through a time when a fake persona somehow wound its way into becoming a head moderator:
Diamond

.....man, this site used to be so incredible back in the day!

texdravid wrote:
No the real deal is Sean Mendis who went from poster to running an airline in Africa.

He's run several airlines (in both Africa and the Middle East) in fact.

But then again, it's not like he was some random poster who got picked to run an airline.
He comes from a family well connected to aviation, and pursued that goal for himself in both his education and occupation. Awesome that he made it happen.

Yep, A.Net back in the day would really get "Wild-n-Wooly"...... good times.....

I had the exact same thought as everyone else--"our" Johan?! And yeah, this site used to be nuts back in the day; I think a.net should produce a snow globe in commemoration of 25 years whenever that happens...
Johan, if you're out there, hope you're doing well.

dcaviation · Sat Nov 11, 2017 1:31 pm

usxguy wrote:

And then of course Scottysai... um. Can we even say his name? Although I believe Cubsrule found him as a person posting with a single character as a username.

Scotty has been annoying flyertalk community since he's been banned here on a.net. On FT he has something like 50 000 posts. But all of them are useless and annoying. There he's under DL767400 or something like that.

usxguy · Sat Nov 11, 2017 5:43 pm

I hear hes also banned from flying Delta...

Btblue · Sat Nov 11, 2017 6:21 pm

777222LR wrote:
For those who don't know, Johan Lundgren was the person that started Airliners.net. I have been on this site (different username) since 1997. Back in the AOL dialup days!

Me too (server crash lost my infor in 2004 when Airliners.net moved over to a new system).

I KNEW the name was familiar. I've been scratching my head and now I know why! Well done him - started out this site and now running easyJet. Great role model.

MalevTU134 · Sat Nov 11, 2017 7:02 pm

Btblue wrote:
777222LR wrote:
For those who don't know, Johan Lundgren was the person that started Airliners.net. I have been on this site (different username) since 1997. Back in the AOL dialup days!

Me too (server crash lost my infor in 2004 when Airliners.net moved over to a new system).

I KNEW the name was familiar. I've been scratching my head and now I know why! Well done him - started out this site and now running easyJet. Great role model.

Did you read the rest of the thread before replying?

AirIndia · Sun Nov 12, 2017 4:01 am

LAX772LR wrote:
kabq737 wrote:
I miss the good ol days...This website used to be so cool...

Me too. The days of B747-437B, ConcordeBoy, CaptOevur, MSYTristar, WideBodyPhotog, B747Captain, TDSCanuck, etc.

Met B747-437B (Sean) once in BOM in a planned a.net meet in 2004. Very down to earth and simple person.

A lot has changed since the early days....

texdravid · Sun Nov 12, 2017 4:59 am

I miss Mendis and MrNiji. However, a lot of the others I am glad they are gone and long gone.

This site is actually better, especially in the Non aviation subsection. They are actually a few conservatives! Back in the day it was quite different.

TOGA10 · Sun Nov 12, 2017 10:12 am

Wow, this went wildly off topic. Anybody know the actual new CEO? Any opinions, things he might change within U2?

LAX772LR · Sun Nov 12, 2017 11:09 am

texdravid wrote:
This site is actually better, especially in the Non aviation subsection.

You're certainly a minority in that regard. This site is a shell of what it once was.

TOGA10 wrote:
Wow, this went wildly off topic.

Not really, considering that the OP was completely mistaken....

TOGA10 wrote:
Anybody know the actual new CEO? Any opinions, things he might change within U2?

Meh, what's there to really say; other than he'll make money while the getting's good, and he'll be gone as soon as it's not. Just like all the others.

Slash787 · Sun Nov 12, 2017 11:12 am

TOGA10 wrote:
things he might change within U2?

He is a member of U2 also?

Btblue · Sun Nov 12, 2017 2:48 pm

MalevTU134 wrote:
Btblue wrote:
777222LR wrote:
For those who don't know, Johan Lundgren was the person that started Airliners.net. I have been on this site (different username) since 1997. Back in the AOL dialup days!

Me too (server crash lost my infor in 2004 when Airliners.net moved over to a new system).

I KNEW the name was familiar. I've been scratching my head and now I know why! Well done him - started out this site and now running easyJet. Great role model.

Did you read the rest of the thread before replying?

Haha. I skimmed through - oops.

TOGA10 · Sun Nov 12, 2017 3:14 pm

LAX772LR wrote:
texdravid wrote:

TOGA10 wrote:
Wow, this went wildly off topic.

Not really, considering that the OP was completely mistaken....

No he wasn't, 777222LR came up with that story. OP was just sharing the news. But I think you know what I meant, I was trying to get this thread back to a serious conversation.

TOGA10 wrote:
Anybody know the actual new CEO? Any opinions, things he might change within U2?

LAX772LR wrote:
Meh, what's there to really say; other than he'll make money while the getting's good, and he'll be gone as soon as it's not. Just like all the others.

Fair enough, but I'm just wondering if anything will change. Everybody seems to agree Alex Cruz is changing BA a lot, so why not Johan?

Slash787 wrote:
TOGA10 wrote:
things he might change within U2?

He is a member of U2 also?

Really....

Slash787 · Sun Nov 12, 2017 3:20 pm

TOGA10 wrote:
LAX772LR wrote:
texdravid wrote:

Not really, considering that the OP was completely mistaken....

No he wasn't, 777222LR came up with that story. OP was just sharing the news. But I think you know what I meant, I was trying to get this thread back to a serious conversation.

TOGA10 wrote:
Anybody know the actual new CEO? Any opinions, things he might change within U2?

LAX772LR wrote:
Meh, what's there to really say; other than he'll make money while the getting's good, and he'll be gone as soon as it's not. Just like all the others.

Fair enough, but I'm just wondering if anything will change. Everybody seems to agree Alex Cruz is changing BA a lot, so why not Johan?

Slash787 wrote:
TOGA10 wrote:
things he might change within U2?

He is a member of U2 also?

Really....

Ok well according to you what changes Johan should make in Easy Jet.

abrelosojos · Sun Nov 12, 2017 5:10 pm

Wow. A post turns into a walk down memory lane. And yes, site has definitely changed from the early days for the worse.

Saludos,
A

777222LR · Sun Nov 12, 2017 7:38 pm

MY FAULT! Sorry. Made a mistake.

Slash787 · Sun Nov 12, 2017 8:35 pm

777222LR wrote:
MY FAULT! Sorry. Made a mistake.

Don't be sorry, its not your fault, Johan Lundgren will make a mistake if he does not orders some CS300

dutchflyboi · Sun Nov 12, 2017 9:52 pm

LAX772LR wrote:
texdravid wrote:
This site is actually better, especially in the Non aviation subsection.

You're certainly a minority in that regard. This site is a shell of what it once was.

TOGA10 wrote:
Wow, this went wildly off topic.

Not really, considering that the OP was completely mistaken....

TOGA10 wrote:
Anybody know the actual new CEO? Any opinions, things he might change within U2?

Meh, what's there to really say; other than he'll make money while the getting's good, and he'll be gone as soon as it's not. Just like all the others.

So tell me where I was completely mistaken? I only posted that Johan Lundgren was appointed CEO for easyJet. This is important to me as an employee of EZY... I guess you did not take the time to read most of this, because if you did, you would have known, that I had nothing to do with posts confusing the new CEO with someone from airliners.

To get back to the topic at hand, does anyone know anything about this guy, besides the fact that he came from TUI?

TOGA10 · Sun Nov 12, 2017 10:41 pm

Slash787 wrote:
TOGA10 wrote:
LAX772LR wrote:

No he wasn't, 777222LR came up with that story. OP was just sharing the news. But I think you know what I meant, I was trying to get this thread back to a serious conversation.

TOGA10 wrote:
Anybody know the actual new CEO? Any opinions, things he might change within U2?

LAX772LR wrote:
Meh, what's there to really say; other than he'll make money while the getting's good, and he'll be gone as soon as it's not. Just like all the others.

Fair enough, but I'm just wondering if anything will change. Everybody seems to agree Alex Cruz is changing BA a lot, so why not Johan?

Slash787 wrote:

He is a member of U2 also?

Really....

Ok well according to you what changes Johan should make in Easy Jet.

TBH I think they are doing well at the moment. Maybe a bigger presence would be good in Scandinavia, although I realise this is Norwegian turf and it appears to be a tricky market. Seeing the fleet replacement, less and less 319s around and 321neo's on order seems positive, however I agree with the other poster about the CS300, seems like a good fit on thinner routes. However this reduces flexibility a lot and I don't think u2 are keen on changing this. They have enough on their plate as it is with Brexit, the AB take-over and heavy competition from VY, W6, FR and DY.

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