Leyla Ibrahimi-Salahi

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Leyla Ibrahimi-Salahi (born October 15, 1980 ) is a Swiss entrepreneur . She is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of the travel company Air Prishtina . Since February 2019 she has also been the owner of the Swiss airline Chair Airlines (formerly Germania Flug ).

Life

Leyla Ibrahimi-Salahi's father, Bexhet Salahi, came from an Albanian village near the southern Serbian - Macedonian border and moved to Zurich as a guest worker in the late 1970s , where he and his wife Feride Salahi soon worked as a travel agent. Leyla Ibrahimi-Salahi grew up as the second oldest of six children in Switzerland. She obtained a KV degree in trust and after the death of her father in 2005 took over the management of the family business, which she subsequently expanded.

Ibrahimi-Salahi is married and has two sons.

Entrepreneurial activities

Ibrahimi-Salahi has been President of the Board of Directors and CEO of the travel company Air Prishtina since 2005 . The company was founded in 1981 as the Pristina Travel Agency (RBP) and in the same year organized the first civil passenger flight to the Pristina airport, which was then used by the military . In 2017, the company transported half a million passengers and had sales of around 60 million francs. Air Prishtina does not have its own aircraft, but chartered them with airlines and thus offers flights from various Central European cities to, among others, Pristina , Ohrid , Skopje and Tirana .

In February 2019, Ibrahimi-Salahi made headlines across the country after the Handelszeitung discovered that the entrepreneur had acquired all of the shares in Germania Flug AG through her subsidiary Albex Aviation . Ibrahimi-Salahi took over, among other things, the 40 percent of the shares that belonged to the insolvent German airline Germania . The Swiss Germania Flug was founded in 2014, owned three aircraft when it was taken over by Ibrahimi-Salahi and employed 120 people. The company announced a rebranding after the takeover .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Fabienne Riklin: The Patriarch. In: Sunday newspaper . September 23, 2018, accessed February 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Management. Retrieved February 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c Tim Höfinghoff: This Swiss entrepreneur is taking over Germania-Flug. February 22, 2019, accessed February 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ This is the new Germania owner. February 22, 2019, accessed February 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ibrahimi-Salahi, Leyla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ibrahimi-Salahi, Lejla (official spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1980