Lufthansa to open first southern European hub in Barcelona

Lufthansa Group, the largest airlines group in Europe, will open its first southern European digital hub in Barcelona. The airline will employ 300 people, focused on technological projects, in the upcoming years.

The company will establish itself in the city in coordination with the Catalan digital transformation enterprise Quantion, with the idea of looking for technological solutions for booking and customer service, among other projects.

Officials seek product owners, agile coaches, solution architects, scrum masters, business analysts, software engineers, UI/UX designers, and data and analytics specialists.

The Catalan government praised the work done by Catalonia's ACCIÓ Trade and Investment Office, which helped secure the deal.

Lufthansa is the group's biggest airline, but not the only one, as this new digital hub will serve Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, and Swiss Air.

Currently, the group has digital hubs with around 1,000 workers in Brussels (Belgium), Frankfurt (Germany), Vienna (Austria), Zurich (Switzerland), and Gdansk (Poland).

Lufthansa Group was "looking all over Europe for the perfect place for us. It is not [just] finding the right partner, but also the right environment, the ecosystem, that we were looking at," Christian Spannbauer, from the Lufthansa Digital Hangar, said during a press conference.