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Executive Officer. The following year, he undertook a comprehensive restructuring of the Group, the SAirGroup was created with Swissair now being one of several
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from 1964 to 1969, interrupted by a one-year stay as a visiting student in the United States. He then studied economics at the
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Bruggisser was primarily responsible for the expansion and the demise of Swissair. Bruggisser initially largely withdrew from public life. In November 2006, he failed in his attempt to be elected to the Board of the South African Airways.
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Bruggisser in January 2001 with immediate effect. His successors, Moritz Suter and
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subsidiaries. In 1997, Bruggisser assumed the post of
Executive President, the operational management of Swissair. After the project "Alcazar" - a group of Swissair, KLM, SAS and Austrian Airlines - had failed in 1993, he followed the advice of the management consultant
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brought charges against
Bruggisser and another 18 people in March 2006 in connection with the Swissair bankruptcy case. They were accused of forging documents, mismanagement and damage to creditors among other things. Bruggisser was charged with false certification.
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