Swissport has announced a series of innovations and developments within its European station network. The additional products and services in particular will further enhance the appeal of the world’s leading ground handling provider to its customer airlines.

Swissport will extend its present passenger services at Kiev Airport to ramp activities on June 1. The company has just won the corresponding licence for a ten-year period. The expansion underlines Swissport’s high ambitions for the Ukrainian market. The Swissport customer portfolio in Kiev includes home hub carrier Ukraine International and
over 20 further airlines.

A number of air carriers elected to adopt new ground handling solutions for their operations at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport at the beginning of the year. Flybe, Asiana, Dallo, Egyptair, Ethiopian Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Air Transat and Lufthansa will all commence new partnerships with Swissport in the next two months (some of them in collaboration with WFS). The new agreements reflect the efforts currently being made by Star Alliance to bring as much of its members’ ground handling operations “under one roof” as possible.

Swissport has also reported further commercial success and new business agreements at Athens Airport from April 1. Jet2.com, Albanian Airlines and Volare have all signed up to receive Swissport services at Athens; and Monarch Airlines has entrusted all its ground handling to Swissport, not only in Athens but also on the four Greek islands served by the UK-based carrier.