Vice President

Maarten Koopmans has worked for KLM since 1998, after graduating with a Masters degree from the Delft University of Technology. He started in a two-year management trainee program and worked as an operational manager in jet engine maintenance afterwards. In 2003 he became director Airport Strategy. In 2006 he was appointed Head of Airport and Environmental Strategy within KLM. Two and a half years later he moved to Inflight Services to become Vice President Crew Planning & Assignment.

Wångdahl is the Vice President Airline Operations of Scandinavian Airlines Group.

He has over 30 years' experience in the aviation industry with 15 years spent serving in different positions such as Chairman of the Board, CEO and COO in various airlines in the Nordic countries including Flying Enterprise, Skyways, Avitrans Nordic, Sverigeflyg, City Airline, Estonian Air, Blue1 and Cimber. He has made several successful transformations in the different airlines.