Lyon Airport announces the appointment of Pierre Grosmaire as its new Commercial and Marketing Director
Aéroports de Lyon (Lyon Airports) is pleased to announce the appointment of Pierre Grosmaire as its new Commercial and Marketing Director, having taken office at the start of September. Pierre will be in charge of developing Aéroports de Lyon’s aviation offer, based in a catchment area of 12 million people within two hours of the airports as well as increasing revenue streams and spearheading passenger experience improvements. Pierre joins Aéroports de Lyon at a crucial time: the recent opening of the new Terminal 1 as well as record passenger numbers (10 million) through Lyon Airport terminals and newly-announced destinations and airlines serving Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport.
Prior to transferring to Aéroports de Lyon, Pierre was the Aviation Marketing Director for VINCI Airports for 11 years, the holding group for Aéroports de Lyon. In this role, he was responsible for the development of 44 airports within the VINCI Airports group such as: Lisbon, Porto, Faro, Santiago de Chile, Salvador de Bahia, Kansai airports, Phnom Penh and Santo Domingo, Lyon, Grenoble, Chambéry, Clermont-Ferrand, Quimper, Rennes, Dinart, Nantes, Poitiers, Toulon, and therefore dealt with more than 200 airlines. He also held the position of Marketing Director at Grenoble et Chambéry in France for 2 years from 2004 to 2006 when VINCI Airports started its operations in France. Pierre was responsible for Network Development and the creation of a route development fund with collaboration with both public and private entities.
Aéroports de Lyon is indeed a passion for Pierre, he was the Market Research Manager at Lyon Airports from 2000 to 2003, in charge of statistics, forecasting, research and analysis. Pierre graduated from the National School of Civil Aviation and specialized in airport and airline management at the Florida Institute of Technology in the years 1999-2000.
About Lyon Aéroport
Lyon Aéroport manages the operation of Lyon-Saint Exupéry airport for commercial aviation and Lyon-Bron airport, 3rd French airport for business aviation. As the leading airport in the VINCI Airports network in France with almost 9 million passengers in 2022, Lyon-Saint Exupéry offers more than 100 direct destinations in 2023 and is connected to the main international hubs. It is linked to the city centre in 30 minutes by the Rhônexpress tram-train. Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport, VINCI Airports' centre of excellence for innovation, offers recent infrastructure and an innovation strategy focused on a quality passenger experience and operational excellence for airlines. Certified Level 4+ by the ACA (Airport Carbon Accreditation), ISO 14001 and ISO 50001, Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport is developing in total control of its environmental impact.
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About VINCI Airports
The world's leading private airport operator, VINCI Airports operates more than 65 airports in 12 countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Thanks to its expertise as a global integrator, VINCI Airports develops, finances, builds and manages airports by providing its investment capacity and its know-how in optimizing operational performance, modernizing infrastructures and managing their operations and environmental transition. VINCI Airports is the first airport operator to have committed to a global international environmental strategy in 2016, to achieve the goal of net zero emission across its entire network by 2050.
