On 2 October 2024, on the age of 93, Martin Schröder handed away – a man whose influential imaginative and prescient and leadership have left a lasting impact on the aviation substitute.
His legacy started in 1958 with the founding of Martin’s Air Charter, a modest charter airline that quick grew into the prolonged-lasting Martinair. Beneath his leadership, the firm became a key participant in each passenger and cargo transport, a testomony to his spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Schröder firmly believed that air lumber back and forth ought to be accessible to all, and this belief lay on the coronary heart of his life’s work. His decision and foresight no longer handiest shaped the attain of Martinair, however also paved the fashion for its shut cooperation with KLM and, indirectly for Air France KLM Martinair Cargo. Thanks to his dedication and imaginative and prescient, we now again as a leader in the realm air cargo market. And we silent take advantage of his success day-to-day.
“Martin Schröder will in all probability be remembered as a man who pursued his needs with ardour and perseverance. His name will stay closely linked to aviation in the Netherlands and beyond. His imaginative and prescient, courage and modern spirit will continue to encourage us all”, states Adriaan den Heijer, EVP Air France KLM Cargo and managing director Martinair.
“Our tips are along with his wife Tineke, their formative years and grandchildren, and the remainder of his household. We provide them our heartfelt condolences and would handle to need them strength in some unspecified time in the future of this sophisticated time”.
