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Does any one know, or can point me in the right direction to find out which handling agent(s) have operated at LBA since 1995? I know Servisair and Avaiance have but from when and what happened to Avaiance? I'm trying to find the info for an assignment I have to write! Thanks!
 
Re: Ground Handling Agents @LBA

To the best of my knowledge the airport has only ever had two handling agents (at a time) unless you can include Jet2 who part handle their aircraft. In the past I believe Dan-Air had a handling contract at the airport, as did British Airways way back in the 70's and early 80's.

Aviance was formerly known as British Midland Handling at LBA until British Midland Airways became BMI in 2002 (?). Around the same time BMI handed the handling contract at LBA to Aviance who operated as the agents for the airline. Since then BMI severely curtailed their Leeds operation until last year when Aviance decided to call it a day at LBA because they were no longer making sufficient money to operate the business successfully. Aviance handed over the remaining handling contracts to Servisair.

Servisair is the longest standing handling agent at LBA.
 
Re: Ground Handling Agents @LBA

I would agree with Aviador and certainly Servisair have been at LBA as long as I have been around, which is a while. I know that they were there in the late 60's and early 70's as I had an uncle working for them on the maintenance of the 6 based Viscounts of BKS and later, Northeast.

Dan Air definitely dealt with their own aircraft at the time when they operated scheduled routes from LBA on a regular basis, (eg HS748 flights to Glasgow) although by the mid 90's they had probably gone. I can't remember the year Dan Air ceased operations, but in their final few years the only route they operated on a scheduled service was the weekend flights to Jersey - the rest were IT charters. I think that by then they had switched to using either Servisair or British Midland?
 
Re: Ground Handling Agents @LBA

does anyone no what kind of pay ramp agents get at LBA working for Servisair
 
Re: Ground Handling Agents @LBA

Yes. Its not bad. If you are new, you will obviously be on a lesser rate than someone with a lot of technical skills. Grades are R1, R2 and T1 & T2.

R= Ramp
T = Technical
 
Re: Ground Handling Agents @LBA

Hi 'Guest'. I can tell you the pay for R1 at Servisair.

Register and join in the fun on forumsforairports and I'll PM you!
 
Re: Delays with Turkuaz Airlines.

I cannot believe the ***Please Read Forum Terms of Service*** up with the Turkuaz flight, they knew it was going to be on an A321 yet still it went tits up. It happens a lot, when flybe sent in embraers or when eastern first sent in the saabs, no one knew how many seats they had on them
or what the trim requirements were, just a simple phone call away yet the so called station manager does nothing. The same station manager who has run the joint for years and years, people have to bear in mind that when Jet2 went self handling they interviewed all the servisair staff and the ones that did not get through were left at servisair. Most of those staff are still at servisair and are mostly useless.

If the Turkuaz ***Please Read Forum Terms of Service*** up had happened at Jet2 the supervisor on shift would most likely not be coming back, but I would not mind betting at servisair the supervisor was praised for the delay only being two hours. It's beyond me how airlines pay to use servisair yet it should
be the other way round they way they carry on. I'm going to dig around at work to find out but I bet my ass that Jet2's on time performance has improved dramatically since we tool over since servisair. The common phrase is often said
at work, mainly by servisair staff - 'they couldn't organise a piss up
in a brewery!'

I know I've been ranting a lot lately but it's very annoying to see such basic errors happening far too often. A lot of staff, especially ones that deal with all the flack from passengers - the poor Interserve guys who run around trying their best with the information given to
them, Jet2 and Servisair passenger agent staff work their arses off to make LBA work, just a few incompitent 'managers' at Servisair (in particular) make the place a nightmare. God help me I'm working tomorrow night - a nice hour wait for bags again for all other passengers except Ryanair!

Apologies if this is in the wrong place and off topic - perhaps we should have a servisair thread on the forum, if anyone can find anything postivie to say in it i'll buy the poster a pint (!!)
 
Its frustrating but i fear it will never change. they are a cheap company so airlines use them & when servisair mess up the airlines either dont pay or pay a reduced fee. They undercut everyone, have old equipment & the upper management of Servisair leeds is like the mafia.

They employee 18 year olds on part time contracts then make them work full time hours. They dont vet the people they employee effectively so 1 in 4 is a complete tool. The training is also not effective and the staffing organisation is beyond a joke. They will also get rid of anyone who is intelligent, questions the managers or complains too often about staffing levels.

I echo your feelings on the manager of this outfit at Leeds.

The problem is, Servisair is the face of LBA. Our passengers see more servisair staff than any other, and if this is the impression they get of LBA... god help us.

90% of delays caused to flights by servisair could be avoided.

Its time the airport company got rid and set up the airports own handling agent like Norwich has.
 
Soon servisair will be replaced by Swissport as a ground handling agent at Leeds Bradford International, as its been confirmed Swissport has bought out Servisair and will merge there operations into Swissport Operations.
 
Will the Swissport strike at LBA from next Friday have an effect
It depends how many of their staff are Unite union members but Swissport might be able to draft staff in to cover at some airports.
 

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