Manchester Handling
Joined: Dec 2006
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From: North West
All depends what level your trying to get in at swayne1.
Dispatch isn't a good place to start as most company's what you to have airport experiance, ie baggage or checkin. Look for jobs there first.
On the MAN Hand front
Is very false, no massive turnover (like SAS or PSA) Dire customer service - i dont think so as they handle alot of adoc football flights/Private, with great customer service, nevermind there normal flights.
Not sure where your have got your info from Smudge, but I think you should do a bit more research b4 posting.
Dispatch isn't a good place to start as most company's what you to have airport experiance, ie baggage or checkin. Look for jobs there first.
On the MAN Hand front
They are exactly the same as every other handling agent
Not sure where your have got your info from Smudge, but I think you should do a bit more research b4 posting.
Joined: Feb 2007
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From: Between a Rock & A Hard Place
My Brother in Law works for this outfit, and he seems happy! Manchester is run by a very well respected and well known individual in the airline industry, a guy who started his career working for Freddie Laker amongst others and is really a nice guy!
Not the largest handling agent at MAN, but who says big is beautiful? I haven't heard any bad rumours on the ramp at MAN about them and they seem to have a good customer servie ethic as well.
There will always be those that malign a company for whatever reasons, personal or otherwise, and to be fair no company is perfect, the perfect job doesn't exist, it just becomes a "what is your tolerance" issue, that's all. They do seem to want experienced people though, as a smallish company they haven't got the time to train ab-initio ops/despatch. I understand that Servisair are the easiest to get a despatch job with, but you will have to take the 20 hour a week contract on the chin to get the experience. Then you can move to another with better T&C's in a couple of years, because the days of being able to walk into a well paid job in any industry are well and truly over, just ask any "megabucks" pilot under 30 how much of his "student" debt is still outstanding!"
Not the largest handling agent at MAN, but who says big is beautiful? I haven't heard any bad rumours on the ramp at MAN about them and they seem to have a good customer servie ethic as well.
There will always be those that malign a company for whatever reasons, personal or otherwise, and to be fair no company is perfect, the perfect job doesn't exist, it just becomes a "what is your tolerance" issue, that's all. They do seem to want experienced people though, as a smallish company they haven't got the time to train ab-initio ops/despatch. I understand that Servisair are the easiest to get a despatch job with, but you will have to take the 20 hour a week contract on the chin to get the experience. Then you can move to another with better T&C's in a couple of years, because the days of being able to walk into a well paid job in any industry are well and truly over, just ask any "megabucks" pilot under 30 how much of his "student" debt is still outstanding!"
Joined: Oct 2005
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From: MAN
Someone i know has looking into getting a job at MH, apparently you get no sick pay no holidays and have to sort out your own tax... basicly your a contractor / self employed. That made him turn away and stay at his current HA.
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From: North West
Someone i know has looking into getting a job at MH, apparently you get no sick pay no holidays and have to sort out your own tax... basicly your a contractor / self employed. That made him turn away and stay at his current HA.
J-Man GL with the new job and well done
Joined: Mar 2007
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From: uk
just started work with MH and i have 18 years experiance in this industry, they pay a better than normall wage, with sickness and overtime. They are not the biggest but i think they can and will be one off the the best, they concentrate on what contracts they do have and do a damn good job ( mabye other agents should take note). Whatever you read about them seems like crap to me!!
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From: 15NM South of EGCC
Manchester Handling soon to become Flight Support is the best company I have ever heard of. They run it like a family at Manchester, can't comment on the other stations though. Everybody knows each other and they really get on. Ok, you get the odd dispute between staff members, but don't you in any family and they soon get resolved. Julian has the reputation of being a really nice bloke, and that seems to have been confirmed in this thread already. He is a man with much experience and from what I have heard he looks after his staff. If you have a choice, I would pick Manchester Handling, no matter what pay is being offered at other companies. In the long run you can grow with the company and be assured of an enjoyable job
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From: Isle of Man
Joined: Nov 2000
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From: luton,beds,uk
From a customer/airline side, Manchester Handling was one of the best handling agents i ever had to deal with. We would land in MAN, open the aircraft door, and the staff would be there waiting for us, GPU was there, Airline rep there, crewbus etc etc, all waiting . Was not the usual of landing in a UK airport and calling on the radio for bus/gpu etc and even just to get someone to the aircraft from the likes of servisair was impossible in some airports. They really are a good, very well organised handling agent.