Question juridique clé
Whether Swissport had passive standing for the promised pre-retirement payments
Solution extraite
Yes. Swissport was bound in its own name by the 13 August 1999 letter, and the later reference to SAirGroup did not remove its debt.
Motifs extraits
The letter was issued on Swissport paper and repeatedly stated that Swissport would pay. The group’s internal allocation of risk or funding did not affect the employee’s contractual counterparty.