Peter Thut is from the Thut line in Bad Ragaz, which came to Bad Ragaz with Fritz Thut (1900 – 1970). This line is originally from Seengen.
As a child he first became interested in snowcats, as he could go for a ride with a snowcat as a consolation, after he fractured his leg.
At the age of 13, he saw an article about his namesake Peter Thut, who was chief pilot at Swissair. He got fascinated by flying after he got in touch to that Peter Thut.
Today Peter has two jobs in a combination that probably nobody has. In the winter he works as a snowcat driver in the ski region Pizol in St. Gallen, Switzerland.And in spring when snow begin to melt, Thut changes to Uniform and flies as a captain of the airline Swiss with an Airbus A320 to different destinations in Europe. – «I’m a Man, who can be a boy everyday.» – Peter Thut
In 2010 Peter Thut was guest at the Swiss television talkshow «Aeschbacher».
In 2016 the following article in the Swiss magazin «Schweizer Familie» was published.