Migros-regional chief operates a flight line

Damien Piller is also Airline-owners. The 62-year-old President of the Migros cooperative neuchâtel-Fribourg is at the top of the speed wings, to a company providing flights for business people. Customers who can afford it, there are seven private jets: a Cessna Citation Excel – the same model used by the Swiss Confederation as a so-called Bundesratsjet, three Embraer 300 Motion and three smaller Cessna Citation.

speed wings is not a whimsy of an older man who wants to fulfill a childhood dream. Rather, it is the Prince, a serious business of the controversial Western Switzerland, Migros-Regional and Multi-Board. Its commitment to speed wings is one of 36 boards of Directors, the holder of Piller in accordance with the commercial register. Freiburg has the BMW garage, is a media entrepreneur, real estate developer and a self-employed lawyer. For 23 years, he is also the President of the Migros cooperative neuchâtel-Fribourg.

Piller's company Anura bought Land directly at the airport

Piller has high-flying plans in business aviation. A in March, opened the airport building testifies at the military airfield in Payerne. The Hangar offers space for up to thirty aircraft, there are Lounges for business passengers, seminar rooms, and its own customs. Passengers will be chauffeured by limousine to the Jets – in the BMW, of course.

Typical Piller: The land on which the building stands, belongs to the company Anura SA. This is the kind of society in Piller's commercial braid that is involved in the scandal of missing funds – funds which have the Migros Headquarters back and Piller have brought a criminal case on suspicion of criminal mismanagement. A total of 1.7 million Swiss francs have disappeared, according to the investigation report, without any counter-performance in the company of Piller flowed to be. Of presumed 864'000 francs are to be passed to the Anura SA.

Piller would not be Piller, if the aviation business would not be intertwined complicated with each other. Because Piller's real estate company Anura, of the lot of Land at the airport. She has built as General contractor for the airport buildings and parts thereof to the municipality of Payerne sold back. Since speed wings, the airline, whose activities are bundled in at least three companies. There is the speedwings Business, with headquarters in Freiburg. There, Piller has led as the President of the Board of Directors. With a single signature of his brother Etienne is registered. The second company is registered in the name of speed wings Executive SA, which is located at the same address in Freiburg. Then there is the speed wings Executive Jet GmbH, based in Vienna. The business purpose: air transportation and leasing of Civil aircraft. This company was founded in 2009. According to the commercial register, provided Piller at the time, a contribution from 17'to 150 Euro, precisely the half of the capital.

Still slump over the skies of Payerne

Six of the seven private jets is registered in Austria. The Viennese company is expected to serve as a construct to ensure a simplified access to EU air space and to save on taxes. The operational centre is located at the Geneva airport and, most recently, at the largest air force base in Western Switzerland, the military airfield in Payerne. This opened into a long process of private aviation. With the inauguration of the new business terminal and the Hangars to position Payerne as an Alternative to the crowded Geneva airport.

Of Lausanne is 45 kilometers away, small airport, accessible via the motorway. The Geneva airport from Lausanne, 60 kilometers, in addition, the highway between the two cities is clogged frequently. Bern and neuchâtel are of Payerne is also easy to reach.

is Still Empty, however, there is largely in the new Hangar: In the current year, only 1600 passengers used the small airport. Is a doubling of the Numbers had been compared to the previous year. Instead, a Plus of 40 per cent resulted.

Created: 09.12.2019, 13:00 Uhr