Except if MAG wanted they could centralise the de-icing under the airport's responsibility. This on of the examples were it is acknowledged that good operational cases can be made for removing the competition.
But would the airlines agree to that and the associated costs? That would have to be sorted before the Airport applied to the CAA for an exemption to limit that aspect of handling, otherwise there will be hearings etc and it will take an age when everyone probably has higher priorities?
Don't know what the relations between agents, airlines and airport is like nowadays, but I do wonder. Has the once much vaunted concept of ACDM (Airport Collaborative Decision Making) been introduced at MAN yet?
Anyway, most flights seem to have been getting away with small delays today except when there was a SNOCLO for about an hour in mid afternoon after a very heavy snow shower, so credit where credit is due.
Not true. The Airport licence the handling agents to operate. They can, and do, monitor their performance.
Last year, one of the agents were having to meet weekly with MA to discuss their performance levels, where licence withdrawal was a possibility.
MA can act if it wants to.
Thanks Mr A Tis - well something seems to have changed for the better then. However, even after all this monitoring and hats on interviews with no biscuits, we still hear of all sorts of shortcomings, so it makes me wonder about the performance standards that are acceptable nowadays.