My Story

Books were of little significance to me as a student. I had little interest in reading, and what I had to read didn't interest me. It was only through my university studies and the necessity of plowing through academic literature that I developed a taste for books, starting with nonfiction outside of my coursework. Soon, I added prose literature, and suddenly, even the Reclam booklets I had rejected in school fascinated me. Over the years, my horizons expanded in terms of art and literature, turning me into a great lover of theater and museums. My favorite authors and sources of inspiration include Franzobel, Joachim Meyerhoff, Heinz Strunk, Rocko Schamoni, Daniel Kehlmann, Frederic Beigbeder, Michel Houellebecq, Paolo Giordano, and Chuck Palahniuk.

As for aviation, I've been passionate about it since childhood. The combination of travel, technology, internationality, and adventure drove me to stay engaged with this subject. My parents enabled me to experience different countries and customs as a child. Before and during my business studies, I got to "smell the jet fuel" intensively by working at Vienna Airport as a baggage handler, in the baggage control center, and in cargo import. As a management trainee at Flughafen Wien AG, I gained broad experience in various departments and then focused on tariff and concession policies.

I now have a flight log of 452 flights to 50 countries, both privately and professionally. This allowed me to get to know 79 airlines, 48 different aircraft types, and 136 airports, covering a distance of 558,498 km (13.94 times around the Earth) with an aggregate flight time of 816 hours (34 days).