Key legal question
Whether the defendant was passively legitimated as contracting party for the option agreement benefits.
Extracted holding
The defendant was not liable as the contract had been concluded as representative of Swissair/SAirGroup, not in its own name.
Extracted reasoning
The circumstances showed the plaintiff had to understand that only Swissair/SAirGroup was to be bound; the plaintiff had long been a Swissair employee, the agreement referred only to Swissair benefits, and the defendant had no reason to assume such obligations itself.