Good riddance to Swisport altogether ( and the s hasn't been left out by accident either ) a shyster firm if i ever did meet, i was working for Aer Lingus at LHR when Lingus decided to leave the third handling business at Lhr and sold out to Swisport Int, then with the demise of the Sair Group, and collapse of Swiss Air, 55% was sold to an investment group Candover ( or Condover as we called them ) over the next four years through crap management we lost just about every piece of work, and when you consider that under Lingus we handled nearly 30 Airlines at LHR, thats a tidy sum , then Swisport Int bought Groundstar , they were due to come under the Swisport UK banner , but No their management were to take over the running of us ??? strange ?? yet unknown to us Swisport Int were getting ready to dump Swisport UK , their part of their cunning plan was to offer voluntary redundancies , £15,000 a man , 114 staff were required, as you can imagine , a disgruntled workforce and plenty of jobs still around they were over subscribed ( cost £1.4 million ) a few months down the road the duty managers were asked for voluntary redundancies 20 of them at £20 - £25000 a piece , next the ex-Lingus staff were told freeze your pensions and give up your holiday pay, and the new Swisport staff were also told that they would have to give up their 13th month pay as well !! other wise the Company would fold !!!! due to the £2 million debt that we had made !!!
The staff by then were so fed up they said get on with it !!! Nov 16th 2004 we were shut down, 4 1/2 years later we are still waiting for Deloitte's to give us our monies owed !!
SO GOOD RIDDANCE SWISPORT !!!!!!!!!!!
