Lufthansa names new North American sales VP

Lufthansa will welcome Tamur Goudarzi-Pour as vice-president of sales for the Americas, Lufthansa Group, effective Jan. 1.

Based at the company’s U.S. headquarters in East Meadow, New York, Goudarzi-Pour will be responsible for the Group’s passenger airline organization in North and South America, spearheading sales and marketing. He will also be instrumental in managing the commercial cooperation that the Lufthansa Group passenger airlines have with United Airlines and Air Canada under the transatlantic Joint Venture agreement.

In the Americas region, the Lufthansa Group Passenger Airlines currently operate 344 weekly frequencies to 22 destinations in the U.S. and Canada and 72 weekly frequencies to 11 destinations in seven South American countries in the 2016 winter schedule.

Since 2014 he’s held the position of vice-president of sales in the Middle East & Africa for Lufthansa German Airlines, overseeing a sales division that encompasses more than 40 destinations in 27 countries.

Goudarzi-Pour joined the Lufthansa Group in 1998 as part of the company’s fast-track trainee program. As senior manager at Lufthansa’s Area Management Middle East, Africa and Southeast Europe he focused on strategic and sales promotions issues, as well as alliances and co-operations. For four years beginning in 2003, Goudarzi-Pour was Lufthansa’s general manager in Iran before becoming director for Central Europe, based in Budapest, where he was responsible for 15 countries of the Central and Eastern European region.