Who handles who? - The 2007 thread!
 

This was a thread in 2005 asking PPRuNers to state which airlines were handled by which handling agents. http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=134015

As the industry is always changing, I thought it'd be a good idea to revisit this idea by launching a new thread for 2007. I'll get the ball rolling by using EMA as an example

Penauille-Servisair

Thomsonfly, MyTravel Airways, First Choice Airways, EasyJet, Ryanair, Air Malta, Spanair, Air Europa, BritishJet, GB Airways, Austrian Arrows, Monarch Airlines, LTE.

Menzies Aviation

Thomas Cook Airlines, Eastern Airways, bmibaby (currently only ramp with bmibaby having their own front of house and dispatch staff) and bmi regional (again currently only ramp with bmibaby handling front of house and dispatch)

All at Manchester
 

Menzies Aviation,
Air Southwest, Jet2, and HLX, SkyEurope, Easjet, Thomas Cook/MYT, BimBaby - Baggage only.

Penauille-Servisair,
Thomsonfly, First Choice Airways, Ryanair, Lufthansa, Icelandair, Aer Lingus, Aer Arann, Air Berlin, US airways, Singapore Airlines, XLA/TravelCity, Zoom, Air Canada, Astraeus, Aurigny Air Services, Qatar Airways, Csa Czech Airlines, Onor Air, Swiss, Fedex, Saudi Arabian, Lot Polish.

Aviance,
Air France, Delta Airlines, Virgin, Balkan Holidays Air, BMI - Baggage Only, SN Brussels Airlines, British Airways.

Swissport,
Emirates - Baggage done by Ringway (soon to change), Air Malta, Monarch, Etihad, Air Transat, Turkish Airlines, Easten Airways.

Flight Support,
Euromanx, Flightline, Scot Airways, FlyBe, Volare, Globespan, SilverJet, VLM.

Aside from UK, under Northern stars the game looks like this;
Helsinki Ground Handlers;
Norhtport (100% Finnair owned)
Finnair
Aero Airlines AS
CSA
British Airways
Aeroflot PAX flights
Pulkovo
Lithuanian
City Airline
SN Brussels Airlines
Cargolux
UPS

Penauille Servisair Finland (Independent from carrier ties)
LOT Polish airlines
Aeroflot Cargo
KLM
Air Berlin
Germanwings
Turkish Airlines
DHL
Rafavia
Air Finland
Britannia Nordic (Tuifly, BLX)
+ many daily adhocs incl business flight ramp services

SAS ground services Finland 100% SAS owned
SAS
Blue1 (KF)
Lufthansa
Tyrolean
Baltic
Eurocypria
Interhandling
Finncomm (FC)

Airpro
Mytravel
Flyme (only occasional adhocs anymore)
Karthago
Two first mentioned handling companies offer de-icing services to customers, Penauille Servisair also to Northport handled Aero and SGS handled Lufthansa.

At LHR BMI handle (With Aviance baggage handling)

BMI
Lot Polish
Cyprus Airlines
Transareo

A couple of amendments to the above :

Tap are handled by Alitalia Full Handling
Qatar by Servisair Full Handling although in Qatar uniforrms
Egyptair as above
BWIA - no longer operate but were handled by Servisair
Iberia are handled by Aviance, C/I in iberia uniforms
South African self handle on check in, Ramp, Baggage & Load Control by Aviance.
Plane Handling do ramp handling for Virgin, Gulf Air, Emirates, Thai , Cathay & Saudi, the check in is either self handling or by SGS in the case or Thai & Emirates.
Alitalia in addition to TAP & Alitalia Handle Swiss but this goes to Servisair on the 15/01/07, JAT, Olympic, Sudan, Uzbekistan, Bellview plus a couple of obscure airlines !
AFSL also handle Syrian Arab

This is a very imformative thread , thank you very much :)

AT MEL

QANTAS

Qantas, QantasLink, Air New Zealand, Malaysian Airlines, Freedom Air, Air China, China Eastern, China Southern, Korean Air, Air Mauritiaus, Vietnam Airlines, Garuda, O'Connor.

MENZIES

Singapore Airlines, Emirates, Thai, Austrian, Cathay Pacific.

Virgin Blue handle themselves, Aerocare looks after their baggage room.

Jetstar self handling for checkin, Express ground handling for ramp and Qantas for baggage room and cleaning.

Some more corrections to the above list for LHR!!
BWIA had name change to Carribean Airlines.
Penauille Servisair will handle them till end of March, after which they will be on a code share with BA
Penauille Servisair also handle:
Air Ukraine
Swiss/LH - Aviance do Ramp and Servisair handle Check in and Load Control
(Swiss move from AZ in 2 weeks)
Royal Air Maroc

Down here in JER

Servisair

FlyBe
Thomsonfly
Sata
Aer Arran (summer only)
Aer Lingus (summer only)
Swiss (summer only)

and most other charters.

Airline Services with Aviance ramp

British Airways
bmibaby
Air Southwest
Atlantic Express
VLM
Twinjet

Aurigny

Aurigny

Rock Aviation

Blue Islands

Think thats it, not sure who'll be handling flyglobespan when they start in the summer, my guess is Circusair :ugh:

At Newcastle, NCL, currently stands as:
Penauille Servisair
Aer Lingus, Ryanair, Easyjet, SN Brussels, Atlantic Airways, MyTravel, Flyjet, Futura, Onur Air, SATA, Austrian, BritishJET and Spanair.
Swissport
BA, Lufthansa, Jet2, Eastern, KLM, Air France, HLX, Thomsonfly, XL Airways, Thomas Cook, First Choice, Monarch, LTE, Eurocypria, SunExpress, Pegasus, Wideroe, FlyBE, BMI, BH Air, Air Malta and Air Europa.
Could all change soon as Menzies are reportedly coming to NCL as third handling agent and supposedly have already signed for 3 contracts with major airlines at NCL.

At IOM
 

At the moment

Manx Regional:
BA Connect
Eastern Airways
Manx2.com
Aer Arann

Flight Support:
Euromanx
FlymayBe
VLM
Blue Islands

CircusAir at BLK
 

Down here in BLK it's a CircusAir:{ monoply now that BNWA has stoped self handling. Word is though that CircusAir have made such a bodge:8 that handling is being tayken back inhouse by the airport from next month.:\

easy at LGW
 

Any rumours of a change here????? Begins with an 'M'

TOO

It seems a shame that one of the PPRuNers who contribute to this thread doesn't start a small web site to track Who Handles Who, initially for the UK and then (perhaps) for rest of Europe.

Although it could never be a 100% accurate, it would still be a useful resource.

Let's do it!
 

I agree with Opssys, it would be a great resource. If the invigilators will set up a blank page it could be updated by us just like Wikpedia.:D

jer
 

globespan have apparently given their handling to servisair,

In the summer we also handle Lufthansa, & Eurowings and the swiss flt mentioned further up is now operated by Darwin - on a saab 2000

having your own page to update would be much easier to keep accurate.

Someone already has! Weell for LHR anyway.

http://www.airgrounduk.bravehost.com/

The Air Ground Services Site as per KiloMike's post:
is obvously run and maintained by a 'Heathrow Insider' using Microsft Office Web Publishing Features to post their Excel Data.

Whilst there is NO reason why this could not be extended to all UK Airports, except garnering and then maintaining that level of detail would be time consuming.

When I made my initial post on this subject I was thinking of someone effectively replicating the infromation from this threads posts with a few added links to the Airport and Resident Agencies into a simple HTML template structure and doing this as a non-commercial spare time activity.

Four, or five years ago, this would have been the way to go and even today would be a quick way of getting the basic information out there.

But keeping the Information up to date (even if limited to UK Airports) could easily become a miserable chore for the poor webmaster.

So when fredtheanorak suggested
He was echoing my own thoughts.

However (Cassandra time).
a) I don't think (maybe I am wrong) PPRuNe would be 'up for this'.
b) A free for all update approach wouldn't work and someone would have to be in charge, to verify data etc (Moderator, Webmaster, whatever).
c) Whilst my initial thoughts would mean the site could run on the 'freespace' provided by an ISP, or Geocities et al, going down a Wiki route requires backend Databses and something like PHP server side. Plus the scripts to run it (In many cases NOT available in 'freespace')

However I still think it would be a good Idea and for a microsecond I thought of adding it to my ever increasing 'Projects to Do' list, but sense kicked in as if I complete a fifth of what is currently on the list this decade, it will be a miracle!

I hope soemone does bite the bullet as I am sure they could get some revenue from sponsership and even Google Ads. I doubt it would ever be self-supporting, but at least costs would be partially defrayed and by having a team of correspondents keeping the information up to date, it would gradaully extend coverage into Europe, almost 'organically'.

So over time it could become one of those resources that people rely on.
DIH

Actually its not run by a 'Heathrow Insider' just someone who is fascinated by ground handling. I have on occassion emailed him with updates etc perhaps others also have and that's why he is so up to date.

Ah!
Well, well. So well done him for his enthusiasm and well done to KiloMike to providing the updates.
DIH