Alexander Schott has been formally introduced as president of Germany’s Luftfahrt-Bundesamt in Braunschweig, with Federal Transport Minister Steffen Bilger calling for the agency to become more modern, digital and efficient. The change at the top of the country’s civil aviation authority is set to affect licensing, oversight and flight medicine procedures across the sector.
Bilger singled out aviation medicine as an area where processing must speed up, reflecting long-running criticism of waiting times, procedures and communication. Schott, who took office earlier in August, is expected to focus on digitalisation, shorter turnaround times and better links between internal processes.
He also wants the agency to redesign workflows rather than simply transfer inefficient paper-based routines into digital form. The LBA, based in Braunschweig, handles central regulatory tasks for German aviation, so any streamlining could ease administrative pressure for pilots, operators and medical applicants. Schott comes to the post from the defence ministry, where he worked on research, innovation, digitalisation and artificial intelligence.