Go-getter
13 September 2012
Franz Plachy is the only professional buyer at airline Go. He tells Sam Tulip about his approach to purchasing, how being owned by BA affects the way it operates, and why he may soon be out of a job
The recipe for a low-cost airline such as Go includes a lot of new ingredients. So who better, then, to blend them together than a trained chef? Franz Plachy, head of purchasing and contracts at the British Airways subsidiary, trained initially as a chef in his birthplace of Vienna, but the move from sachertorte to Stansted is not as illogical as it might appear. “...