swissport on the way out
 

like i said before SAT1.....keep your clowns outfit, it might come in handy soon..... you have most of it already, well it is red........all you need now is the big shoes and the red nose.......and you already make us laugh.

I am not involved with the Circus or Swissport but do know enough about the ground handling industry to know that this, or at least the amount, is rubish
what sort of margins do you think the handlers have, certainly not enough to be offering a 500K incentive to stay.

Breaking new!!
 

The latest from bhx is the port have served a 60 day notice on all airlines except flymaybe!!! If true then surely servisair cannot take on all contracts! Another handling agent must be on the cards as one cannot cope especially on this scale!

Baz

3rd handling agent
 

Surely if its true about swissport only wanting to have flybe at bhx then there is room for a 3rd handling agent?.Gate Or menzies?.

Swissport......
 

It would appear that Swissport have there backs against the wall this time and really have no place to turn!

We all knew Monarch would eventually pack up and leave (due to a number of accidents involving ground staff) and an average handling service that was provided year after year with little or no improvment.

Flybe are Swissports bread and butter and will enable swissport to keep a small work force, however given the fact Swissport have lost there 2nd biggest customer could this Iceberg be getting closer?

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This has to me the most stupid and most unbelievable rumour ever posted on PPrune.:ugh::ugh:

Funny how no servisair BHX staff are aware of thi sannouncement but from your little cave in Kent you are!:(:(

Rumour Network
 

I sometimes wonder if there should be a seperate section to pprune, because there are several types of rumours, from those with some substance, ranging through to those which are complete and utter bo***cks! I think you may agree with me on that point Legaliize?!

It looks like comms to my "little cave in Kent" are somewhat more efficient than in your little office in Bhx, as apparently official announcment made yesterday, or perhaps you are talking to wrong servisair contacts :ok:

Please feel free to post your findings on here :rolleyes:

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Official announcement today. Thomson have renewed the contract at BHX with Servisair, so quite a few of you including Legalize were completely and utterley wrong
Funny how no servisair BHX staff are aware of thi announcement but from your little cave in Kent you are!http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...lies/sowee.gifhttp://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...lies/sowee.gif

Funny how walking in this morning after 2 days off, a notice on the wall saying u guessed it... Thomson are staying with Servisair... Looks llike u need to go to a cave as they seem more reliable than ur so called servisair buddies. Am also sure u posted the same re TCX and them going to the 'port. Oh well!!!!!!!!! :ugh::ugh::ugh:

Oh also Monarch as well have signed..

I still beleive this is to much for 1 to handle but here goes.. :ok:

Baz

According to a friend of mine who is a dispatcher at Swissport the Monarch Crews are well pissed off about being handled by the Circus. They admitted that the only reason their company went to Aviance/Circusair was because they could not turn down the virtually free turnrounds they will be getting. Also withthe delay fines written into the contract they will be getting a heavy discount on a delay of 1-10 minutes and a free turnround if the delay is more than 10 minutes. They cant lose!! With the amount of work the circus have taken on I cant see monarch paying a penny for the duration of the contract.:{

From what I heard Servisair are the ones thinking about giving Monarch the boot. They are not happy with the terms agreed by Aviance originally which they have to honour. Servisair also have a clause which allows them to pull out of the deal and they are seriously thinking about doing do.

I think that you would agree that Aviance would not have taken a loss making contract on at BHX, as it was one of their few profitable bases.... WHY?

The MON agreement has been signed with Servisair post the Aviance buy (hence just announced offically), and so all the rates and t & c are Servisair agreed. Maybe Servisair are now using their size to "crush" their remaining competition ....very understandable... I would look out for this at many stations.

The rates offered by Aviance were higher than the present Swissport rates (not taking into account any cross subsidy/discount package with LGW or MAN), but SERVICE was the deciding factor.

I am sure MON are nervious as I am sure that they were not expecting the highly respected Aviance BHX management team to have been replaced.....

I agree with you Alan. Aviance Managment at BHX were a cut above the rest. If they are now not part of the servisair management team then it will be serviair's loss.

I can see some of the old aviance managment team turning up at swissport over the coming months and sorting things out.

If swissport manage this then its only a matter of time before they start taking contracts off of servisair!

Or will they turn up at a 3rd handling agent?

If what im hearing is true, all you Servisiair staff who are swissport haters have got a nice suprise coming..:oh::oh:

Care to tell us more ?

Is this "nice surprise" a local thing or national?

Servisair Have Got A Suprise Coming
 

dont tell me....swissport have gone bust....thats no suprise!!!:eek: