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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.
Originally Posted by mangrnd1
(Post 3083707)
Add on : Air Europa, LTE, Pegasus, Cyprus Airways, Eurocypria (Swiss moving to Pen/Sair in feb)
Originally Posted by Man_user
Change at Manchester, Turkish Airlines is moving from Aviance to Swissport I think on the 17th of March, Full Handling.
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. |
Originally Posted by Bluel0gic
(Post 3048188)
At LHR SGS (SAS) handle:
SAS, Etihad, Emirates, Thai, Asiana, Air China, Varig (not for long) At LHR BMI handle BMI, LOT At MAN SGS handle: SAS, Blue 1, Wideroe, Thomas Cook, Mahon Air, KLM, PIA BMI Lot Polish Cyprus Airlines Transareo |
Originally Posted by Bluel0gic
(Post 3048188)
At LHR
SGS (SAS) handle: SAS, Etihad, Emirates, Thai, Asiana, Air China, Varig (not for long) Menzies handle: Aer Lingus, Iceland Air Aviance handle: Air Jamaica, Bi Man, JAL, Gulf, TAP, Qatar, Saudi, Egyptair, Ethiopian Airlines, Kibris, Royal Brunei, Singapore Airlines, Turkmenistan KGS handle: Air Malta, Air Sahara, Kenya Airways, KLM, KLM City, Sri Lankan British Airways handle: BA, Qantas, SN Brussels, Finnair Air France handle: AF, Aeroflot, Air Astana, Air Seychelles, China Eastern, CSA, Libyan Arab, Pulkovo, Tunisair, Yeman Servisair Handle: Air Algerie, Austrian Airlines, Croatian Airlines, Lufthansa, Tarom, Air India, Egyptair, Malaysian, MEA, PIA American handle: AA, Korean Air, Kuwait, Turkish Airlines Air Canada handle: AC, Air Mauritius, EVA, Royal Jordanian United handle: UA, BWIA, Air New Zealand, Jet bmi handle: BMI, LOT, Cyprus Airlines, Transareo South African Airways, ANA, Virgin, Cathay, TAP, Iberia and El Al handle themselves (may outsource ramp). At MAN SGS handle: SAS, Blue 1, Wideroe, Thomas Cook, Mahon Air, KLM, PIA 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 :)
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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.:\
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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!
Originally Posted by Opssys
(Post 3060129)
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. |
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. |
Originally Posted by Opssys
(Post 3060129)
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. http://www.airgrounduk.bravehost.com/ |
The Air Ground Services Site as per KiloMike's post:
Originally Posted by KiloMIke
(Post 3066058)
Someone already has! Weell for LHR anyway.
http://www.airgrounduk.bravehost.com/ 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 updated by us just like Wikpedia. 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.
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Ah!
Originally Posted by KiloMIke
(Post 3067842)
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.
DIH |
Cardiff - Egff - Cwl
At Cwl there are two handling agents at front of house .Aviance and Circusair but all ramp is handled by Aviance.
Circusair Thomsonfly (contract is up for grabs, maybe aviance) Air Southwest Zoom Monarch Onur Air My Travel Air Malta Iberworld Air Europa Spanair Viking Airlines Aviance Flybe (S07) Bmi Baby Aer Arann First Choice Eastern Airways Balkan Holidays Fly Hello Futura International KLM Blue Island |
Jersey Update
Originally Posted by jerboy
(Post 3053846)
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: British Airways Blue Islands CI Fly All Atlantic Airlines Freighters Jet2 You can contact us on 01534 496920 |
DUB
Here in DUB we have seen a good few changes over the last years but heres the list.
Aviance BMI British Airways Iberia Gulfair Turkish Airlines Finnair Austrian Airlines TAP Excel Airways Air Southwest Astraeus Penauille Serivisair American Airlines Continental Airlines Delta Airlines Air Canada Us Airways CSA Czech Airlines LOT Polish Airlines Malev Hungarian Airlines Centralwings FlyBe Futura LTE LTU Air Baltic Lithuanian Airlines Estonia Airlines Nouvel Air First Choice Airways Monarch My Travel Thomas Cook Hemus Air Bulgaria Air Iberworld (from April) Travel Service(Smart Wings) Jet 2 (Channel Express) (occasional charters) Onur Air Pegasus Air Europa Luxair Air Malta Atlas Blue Transavia (occasional charters) Tunisair Sky Handling Partner Air France/Cityjet Lufthansa Swiss SAS Scandinavian Airlines Spanair Eurocypria Flightline Blueone Iberworld (Until April) Aer Arann (baggage only) Sky Europe Germanwings who will restart CGN in march are rumoured to be moving from Servisair to Aviance no confirmation just yet. |
Handling at BFS
A few changes over the last year a BFS.
Aviance BMI Baby BMI Fly Globespan Iberworld BH Air Manx2.com Eurocypria Sun Express Astraeus Continental Nouvel Air British Airways Menzies Aviation Easyjet Wizz Air (from May07) Belfast Airport Handling DHL (cargo) Atlantic Airlines (cargo) Penauille Servisair Jet2.com My Travel Airways First Choice Airways Monarch Excel Airways Thomas Cook Airlines Thomson Fly Spanair Futura Air Europa LTE Zoom Airlines Air Transat Sky Service Onur Air Pegasus Freebird Karthago Airlines Hemus Air Croatia Airlines Dubrovnik Airlines Viking Airlines Kthy Aviajet Transavia CSA Czech Airlines Fly BE Greece Airways TNT (cargo) UPS (cargo) Titan Airways (cargo/mail) Jet2.com (cargo/mail) and most other Ad-Hoc charters (ie. LDE's) Think i've covered all! Richard |
@ LGW
Sorry But I only know about Servisair at Gatwick but the others are just from observations.
Servisair: Thomson Fly Thomas Cook Easyjet Sterling Flybe Ryanair MyTravel Etihad AA XL TAP Delta Braathens Qatar Continental (ramp) TAP Onur Air Emirates Azerbaijan Meridiana Aurigny ASA Atlas Blue Polkovo Groundstar: Monarch Jet2 Virgin First Choice Air Malta Zoom Air Transat Flyjet (i think) Northwest Croatia German Wings Aviance: Astraeus (i think) GB Airways (ramp) Olympic US Airways It's not the antire list of airlines by any means but it's all I can think of. |
For MAN
Originally Posted by TechProblem
(Post 3048736)
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[COLOR=Magenta]Swissport, Emirates, Air Malta, Swiss, Eastern, FlyBe, Monarch, Etihad, Air Transat. |
Ad!!!
A few errors in your lists.. AA - handled by BA. Groundstar: Monarch Jet2 Virgin First Choice Air Malta Air Transat Northwest Croatia Aviance: Astraeus GB Airways (ramp) Olympic US Airways Zoom Bulgarian Air Air Baltic Nationwide Air Zimbabwe BMI Cubana Lithuainian Adria Estonian Flyjet Afriqiyah Air France German Wings Air Namibia Ghana International Central Wings Belavia Aerolineas Argentinas Air Algerie Royal Air Maroc |
Newcastle
A few new contracts up for grabs at NCL, starting this summer: Cimber Air Aer Arann Emirates Flyglobespan Thomsonfly and TCX contracts also rumoured to be due for renewal. Still no news of third handling agent, so contracts will go to Servisair or Swissport. |
Liverpool - EGGP - LPL
Flight Support
VLM (full handling) Euromanx (full handling) FlyGlobespan (full handling) Futura (full handling) Air Europa (full Handling) My Travel (ramp handling) Wizz Air Class / Visig Iberworld Balkan Holidays Centerline Air Medetranee Titan Airways Viking Airlines Servisair Easyjet (full handling) Ryanair Flybe Aer Arran My Travel (check in and Dispatch) Spanair Thompson fly Onur air Monarch First Choice Thomas Cook LAS Most general aviation Scot airways Most ad-hoc work is usually split between Flight support and Servisair This is uptodate, but you know how quickly things change |
JER
Update for Jersey following the announcement of the new bmi LHR service:
Servisair FlyBe Thomsonfly Sata Aer Arran (summer only) Aer Lingus (summer only) Swiss (summer only) Flyglobespan and most other charters. Airline Services with Aviance ramp British Airways bmibaby Air Southwest Atlantic Express VLM Twinjet bmi Aurigny Aurigny Rock Aviation Blue Islands |
BHX from the best of my knowledge
Penauille Servisair Aer Lingus, Air Berlin, Air India, Air Malta, Balkan, City Airline, Continental Airlines, Emirates, European, Excel, Neos, PIA, Thomsonfly aviance Air France, Astraeus, Austrian Arrows, bmibaby, bmi charter, BritishJet, Eurowings, KLM, KLM Cityhopper, Lufthansa, Ryanair, SAS, Thomas Cook, Uzbekistan Airlines Swissport UK/Groundstar Aerosvit, Air Slovakia, Cyprus Airways, Eurocypria, First Choice, flybe, LTE, Mahan Air, Monarch Airlines, Monarch Scheduled, MyTravel, Swiss, Turkmenistan Airlines. (Swissport are likely to get the contracts currently handled by BA - SN Brussels Airlines and Eastern Airways, alongside the BACON flights after the flybe merger.) Aviation Support HLX, SkyEurope |
Leeds Bradford
Servisair: KLM Cityhopper, FlyBe, Air Southwest, ThomsonFly, My Travel, Aer Arann, BritishJet/Hello, Air Malta, Spanair, Futura, Astraeus, Onur Air, Pegasus, Sun Express. I think they're handling LTE this summer. Jet2 at the moment. Aviance: BMI Mainline and Regional, Eastern, Manx 2, Austrian, Air Europa, Balkan Holidays, Iberworld. Jet2 will self-handle from 18 March. Baggage handling for all airlines continues to be supplied by the airport company. This may change after the airport is sold later this year. |
From what I know at Durham Tees Valley
Aviance Air Europa, bmi, Flyglobespan Servisair Eastern, KLM, Ryanair, Thomsonfly + every one else I can't remember. We also have Midwest Exec who handle most bizjets. Aviance have recently started ramp handling also, and Flyg is of course launching a 2 a/c base for the summer, will keep Aviance busy! Air Europa is winter only (they don't have any contracts for the summer) Anyone know who will handle XL Airways when they come here? mmeteesside |
Who handles who 2007 thread
With the announcement of the merger of MYT and TCX it looks as though there may be a tussle for the ramp handling at some airports. At e.m.a servisair handle MYT while menzies handle TCX and with TCX having the larger share i guess menzies will keep the handling and servisair will lose out .Is there a date when all this will be finalised and is there any other airports where one of the handling agents are going to lose a contract?
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Tcx + Myt
In Manchester both myt and tcx bags are done by Ringway.
Front of house for MYT will be up for grabs, athough SAS might get it becasue they already do front of house for TCX. MYT do there own check-in at man atm. |
MyTravel Airways signed a comprehensive handling agreement with Servisair at the end of the summer season 2006, saying that Servisair would be the preferred handling agent across the country (excluding BHX & MAN) for the next three years. Obviously, once TCX merges with MYT, they may want to discontinue this agreement in favour of Thomas Cook's own preferred handling agents, though I was told the deal was very lucrative, so it may be of interest for TCX to keep the circus. With regards to EMA, I had heard Thomas Cook was moving back to Servisair at some point, predominantly because we were able to offer a complete package including lounge access and CUSS bag drop facilities, but it looks like Menzies will still have them for this summer at least.
Penauille Servisair, the Global Aviation Ground Services Company 2006, has concluded a major three-year cooperation agreement with MyTravel Airways, one of the UK's leading holiday and leisure groups. Under the terms of this renewed contract, Penauille Servisair will provide full ground handling services across 21 airports across the UK. After intensive negotiations, MyTravel Airways selected Penauille Servisair to renew their contract based upon their proven performance record of delivering high-quality services to the end Customer, the passengers. The two companies will continue to work as business partners by renewing the multi-station deal at airports across the UK at Aberdeen, Blackpool, Belfast, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster, Edinburgh, Nottingham East Midlands, London Gatwick, London Stansted, Glasgow, Humberside, Inverness, Jersey, Leeds, Liverpool, Luton, Newcastle, Sheffield and Durham Tees Valley airports. Samantha Mackie, MyTravel Airways Customer Service Director comments: "We're looking forward to continuing our proactive working relationship with Penauille Servisair. They fully understand our aims of delivering consistently high levels of customer care and an outstanding holiday flight experience, whilst assisting us to maintain our excellent standards of on-time departures. We believe that it is imperative to have a partner on the ground that is not only willing to see our customer vision, but can help us to achieve it." Darren Harding, Penauille Servisair VP Business Development Low Cost and Charter Carriers, is equally enthusiastic: "We are delighted to have forged this closer professional partnership with MyTravel. Based on our past experience, we look forward to our collaboration to enhance our business process further. We're convinced that this agreement provides a sound foundation for further developing both our business and our collaboration in the months and years ahead." Penauille Servisair will provide comprehensive ground handling services for the MyTravel Airways' fleet of 19 Airbus 320/321/330 and 3 Boeing 757/767 aircraft. The Services provided by Penauille Servisair will include ticket desk, check-in, passenger and baggage handling, ramp services, fuelling, load control and communications, representation and accommodation, station supervision and administration, surface transport of passengers and crew, flight dispatch, Customer aftercare services and mail handling and aircraft maintenance. |
Here in DUB Servisair handle both VZ and MT so no problems there.
It will be interesting to see where the EY contract goes. |
Just four corrections to bmibaby.com's post re. BHX:
PIA handled by Swissport; Air Berlin, City Airline and Balkan Holidays by Aviance (also Wizzair and bmi regional in case of diverts from LTN and EMA). With TCX and MYT merging, it will be interesting to see which way the handling contract goes... |
Change at Manchester, Turkish Airlines is moving from Aviance to Swissport I think on the 17th of March, Full Handling.
Also Aviance should be getting the BA contract but nothing has been set in stone yet. |
At JNB
SAA Handles Air Tanzania AIR MADAGASCAR Air Mauritius TAAG Olympic Egyptair Etihad Qantas Thai Rwana Express Swissport All the other airlies |
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