Philippe Bruggisser, director-general of Swissair Participations (Gate Gourmet, Swissotel, Jack Maeder) will succeed Otto Loepfe as director-general of the Swissair Group on 1 January 1996. Following his appointment as president of the International Air Transport Association, Loepfe will concentrate his activity at Swissair on the development of co-operation with partner airlines Sabena, Austrian Airlines, Delta Airlines and Singapore Airlines. Alain Bandle, vice-president for the Swissair/ Sabena Project, in which Swissair took a 49.5% share in Sabena, will leave Swissair on 1 January, 1996, and will return to Hewlett Packard (Europe), as global-partner manager for Computer Systems Organisation Europe.
Source: Flight International
