yet the same curcumstances of undercutting is occurring in Europe and US, yet they cope?
Can you substantiate that ? This must be an issue at other airports too surely. Perhaps we don't see these reports in the UK? And don't the low cost airlines in the US have mostly their own handling staff rather contracting it out?
Anyways here's a few not at Manchester....
Remember the debacle at LGW last summer with lack of handling in the early hours - national headlines, airport company put the blame squarely on the handling agent (Swissport)
Gatwick chaos: Airline axes baggage handler Swissport after extended delays - Home News - UK - The Independent
or this one at Stansted, again involving Swissport
Last night a spokesman for Swissport said: ‘Swissport staff were under extreme pressure dealing with an unprecedented level of flights and whilst we accept we should have unloaded the passengers sooner we simply had no one available to unload when contacted by the captain. Swissport regret any delay to passengers and to Ryanair.’
Ryanair passengers call police during ELEVEN hour delay as they demand 'food, water and the right to leave the aircraft' at Stansted airport | Daily Mail Online
or in Singapore
More than a thousand Jetstar passengers face delays, cancellations and luggage headache - Singapore Transport News & Top Stories - The Straits Times
Swissport, Menzies, ASIG, WFS, Dnata and soon to be joined by Aviator. Airline services are also present but only undertake cleaning and De-icing at the moment.
Far too many IMHO. But there again I'm sure that UK/EU law requires an airport to accept any handling company subject to certain tests. I think that in order to restrict HAs, an airport has to submit a case to the regulator to restrict the number, which, unless there are very compelling reasons, will be rejected. So all these 6 will be fighting for a slice of an only slowly expanding cake. And how do they do it? Undercut the others. The race to the bottom continues...
Would Collaborative Decision Making improve the situation? Discuss