You suggest taking on the ground handling of other airlines? Ground handling is a blood bath with Servisar / Menzies / Aviance bleeding red ink left right and centre bu undercutting and handling at a loss. Yet you suggest a highly unionised legacy carrier should get into this? Brian I have to say that's insane.
BA got out of that business at Heathrow years ago and at Gatwick I believe it's really just Air Southwest operating an old BA route they look after.
Does EI even need self handling outside Dublin? Would it not be a better idea to outsource ground handling even at Dublin?
BA do not cater themselves, but they have a significant ownership in the company that does cater for them, GateGourmet.
No they don't mate. It's a US firm forever teetering on the brink of insolvency.