Aviation portfolio mockup for Samantha Krüger with navigation menu and a boarding pass that now carries a scannable vCard QR code next to the contact details.

samantha.krueger.joburg
OS231 AAS88 NC404

VIE · VIENNA INTL — GROUND OPERATIONS

Samantha Krüger

Passenger service agent · Aviation and IT specialist

4.5 years on the operational side of Vienna Airport — disruption management, gate ops and agent training — plus the code to automate it. Creator of hOpS, a fully automated boarding-support dispatch app in daily use.

HRS 4.5Y OPS BASE VIE NEXT WPT OCC / CREW CONTROL
TRACKING S. KRÜGER3 YRS AUSTRIAN AIRLINESDISRUPTION MGMTTRAINER POOLUMNR CAREAPP HOPS OPERATIONALDE + EN NATIVECOMRADES 90K FINISHER TRACKING S. KRÜGER3 YRS AUSTRIAN AIRLINESDISRUPTION MGMTTRAINER POOLUMNR CAREAPP HOPS OPERATIONALDE + EN NATIVECOMRADES 90K FINISHER
01 · ROUTE

Career flight path

Three airports, one trajectory — Johannesburg roots, Graz engineering, Vienna operations.

◉ LIVE ROUTE REPLAYSPD 480KT · ALT FL350
JNB Johannesburg · roots GRZ TU Graz · Netconomy VIE Vienna · base · now
02 · FLIGHT LOG

Experience

Every rotation logged. Current leg: Austrian Airlines.

OS · AUSTRIAN AIRLINES EN ROUTE

Passenger service agent — disruption team and trainer

VIE — Vienna Airport · STD 06/2023 · ETA —

06/23
NOW
  • Daily ops: independent check-in, boarding, gate supervision and care of unaccompanied minors (UMNR).
  • hOpS: designed, built and runs a fully automated dispatch app that coordinates boarding-support staff — demand-driven, resource-efficient, systematically documented.
  • Disruption management: rebookings plus hotel, catering and ground-transport coordination during irregular operations.
  • Trainer pool: onboarding and on-the-job coaching for new agents; handling processes for a customer airline.
AAS · AIRLINE ASSISTANCE CH LANDED

Passenger service agent

VIE — Vienna Airport · STD 04/2022 · ATA 05/2023

04/22
05/23
  • Independent check-in and boarding, gate supervision for on-time departures, UMNR care.
NC · NETCONOMY LANDED

Web app service engineer

GRZ — Graz · STD 06/2020 · ATA 06/2021

06/20
06/21
  • Customer support for complex web applications and shops; change requests and automation improvements; monitoring and on-call first-level support.
03 · SYSTEMS

Departures board

Skills with a confirmed status.

DEPARTURESSKILLS + SYSTEMS
SYSTEMSTATUS
AMADEUS ALTÉAEXPERT
SABRE INTERACTPROFICIENT
BA FLYPROFICIENT
DISRUPTION MGMTEXPERT
TRAINING / COACHINGEXPERT
JAVASCRIPTADVANCED
PYTHONADVANCED
HTML / CSSADVANCED
MERN STACKPROFICIENT
04 · HANGAR

Projects

Things I've built — one of them runs daily at the gate.

FEATURED · IN DAILY OPS

hOpS — dispatch automation

Self-initiated app that fully automates the demand-driven allocation of boarding-support staff at VIE. Built solo, documented systematically, used every day.

JavaScriptAutomationOps

Live flight tracker

A flightradar24-style live tracker built into my personal site — the DNA of this page.

MERNLive data

Mine safety app

Work-safety and near-miss reporting web app for the mining industry.

Web appReporting

RAC website

Design and development, end to end.

HTMLCSSJS

ALSO IN THE LOGBOOK — COMRADES ULTRA 90 KM FINISHER ◆ TAE KWON DO

COMMS · LANGUAGES

GermanNATIVE
EnglishNATIVE
AfrikaansFLUENT

TRAINING LOG · EDUCATION

Business informatics2021–23

University of Vienna

Information and computer engineering2017–21

TU Graz

German Intl. Abitur (DIA) + SA NSC2014–16

Deutsche Internationale Schule Johannesburg

05 · BOARDING

Final call

Now boarding: crew control and OCC opportunities.

BOARDING PASSSK · 2026
PASSENGERKRUEGER / SAMANTHA
FROMJNB
TOVIE
SEAT1A
CLASSOPS + IT
SCAN TO SAVE CONTACT VCARD · NAME, EMAIL, PHONE