Originally Posted by
SWBKCB
When I worked for Servisair back in the day we had to operate the hi-lo's for belly cargo etc, it wasn't Manchester Corporation
Not until after the handling was opened up you didn't!
In fact even after that Servisair started by only doing the ramp handling in T2, T1 continued with the Servisair airlines being sub-contracted to Ringway Handling.
After a while Servisair took their T1 contracts in house and did it all themselves.
But only a few years later they again withdrew back to T2 after agreeing a working partnership with RHSL (Ringway Handling). The deal was that RHSL would sub contract the pax handling etc to Servisair across both T1 and T2 and Servisair would sub it's T1 ramp handling to RHSL.
At that point RHSL had started winning contracts for whole handling in its own right, but without a dispatch/passenger handling section it needed to sub that part of the work.
That stumbled along for a few years before again breaking down.
In between RHSL explored partnerships with with others, for a while it had a deal with Manchester Handling to provide the dispatch/pax services but little of commercial value came from it.
At one point RHSL had dabbled with providing it's own dispatch/front of house and pushbacks but couldn't really reach the volumes to make it viable. After that the board of RHSL would never allow it to develop in that direction again.
RHSL did however get back into pushbacks.