27.04.2009
AHS integrates Swissports German Passenger Handling
AHS Aviation Handling Services GmbH is to take over the organisations and operations of Swissport’s subsidiary companies at Hamburg, Hanover, Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf and Munich airports in Germany on June 1st 2009. The entities concerned will all be transferred to a new subsidiary named AHS GermanGround GmbH within the AHS Group. The sale will see up to 680 current Swissport personnel transferring to the new AHS subsidiary.
The acquisition of the Swissport Group’s passenger handling operations in Germany is a major step for AHS in its endeavours to remain a strong and effective business presence in the increasingly competitive air transport market. “As a provider of aircraft handling and ticketing services, we are facing a growing consolidation within the airline sector,” says CEO Reinhardt Erdmann-Leutner. “The economic and financial crisis has hit the air transport business head-on,” he continues. “And it’s only by working together that we will meet and master the challenges of the next few years and secure jobs within our sector.”
AHS is already active at 14 German airports, with responsibility for handling aircraft and passengers on behalf of its airline customers or their local representatives. The company is jointly owned by the airports of Hamburg (32.25%), Hanover (34.75%), Bremen (12%), Stuttgart (10%) and Münster/Osnabrück (10%) and by AirPart Nuremberg (1%), and has a countrywide workforce of over 1 000 personnel.
Swissport Ground Handling, Services and Travel are fully-owned subsidiaries of Swissport International Ltd. via its Swissport Deutschland GmbH holding company. Swissport is active at 178 airports in 40 countries on five continents.
Further News
SunExpress-AHS – A successful Story
(24.01.2013)
Iran Air and AHS - Cooperation in Cologne
(04.01.2013)
Monarch in Munich
(21.09.2012)
AHS and ASL sign cooperation agreement
(04.09.2012)
Avanti Memmingen - Avanti Air
(11.06.2012)
euroLOT goes north
(06.06.2012)
Ait Transat back at MUC
(06.06.2012)
Iceland Express - fast to Iceland
(05.06.2012)
WOW - to Iceland!
(05.06.2012)
'Ryan' at the Rhine
(15.05.2012)
Eight times Aeroflot
(27.04.2012)
Turkish Airlines now at Bremen
(26.04.2012)
Etihad launches new route Dusseldorf – Abu Dhabi
(16.12.2011)
你好中国东方航空 - Nǐhǎo China Eastern Airlines
(30.08.2011)
Bonjour Tunisair
(20.05.2011)
Welcome Continental!
(20.05.2011)
Bienvenido Spanair
(05.04.2011)
Five Star Service: Qatar Airways counts on AHS
(06.03.2011)
One Brand, one Team, one Company!
(18.01.2011)
With Air Arabia from Cologne to Morocco
(01.11.2010)
First bmibaby flight to Munich
(17.09.2010)
Condor Award for our locations in Stuttgart and Munich
(05.07.2010)
Air Memphis signs up with AHS
(01.07.2010)
The night of the fans – UEFA Europe League final in Hamburg
(14.05.2010)
New Managing Director at AHS Aviation Handling Services GmbH
(23.04.2010)
Eyjafjallajökull stops airline operations in Germany
(20.04.2010)
Russian Giant! – Antonov AN225 visits Hamburg
(12.04.2010)
Airberlin and AHS: Now also in Cologne!
(01.04.2010)
Cologne: New connection to Innsbruck and Graz
(28.03.2010)
Brussels Airlines – New customer in Hanover
(28.03.2010)
Just in case – Yemenia counts on AHS
(01.03.2010)
Storm Daisy brought ice and snow to German Airports
(15.01.2010)
From Düsseldorf to Basle with easyJet
(02.11.2009)
Hamburg: LOT Polish Airlines returns to AHS
(01.10.2009)
New connection between Erfurt and Hamburg
(03.09.2009)
New services to Moscow with Aeroflot and Blue Wings
(03.07.2009)
New customer in Munich: Mistral Air
(28.06.2009)
Estonian Air - Welcome back in Berlin
(08.06.2009)
With Bremenfly in the Orient
(03.06.2009)
New in Dusseldorf: B&H Airlines
(01.05.2009)
Germania - New in Frankfurt
(01.04.2009)
Fly like an Egyptian - With Koral Blue to scuba diver´s paradise
(01.04.2009)
Cooperation with ASM
(01.04.2009)
Germanwings in Dresden
(29.03.2009)
Just more AHS within Air Berlin in Dusseldorf
(01.03.2009)
Condor and AHS - now also in Dusseldorf
(01.02.2009)
Holà Pronair - new customer for AHS from Spain
(01.02.2009)
In good tradition, a new customer: Ghana International
(29.11.2008)
3rd KLM Five-Crown-Award for AHS Bremen
(20.10.2008)
Air Italy signs up with AHS
(16.10.2008)
AHS Dresden wins GOLD in British Airways' QUALITY COUNT
(06.10.2008)
easyJet in Hamburg
(18.08.2008)
AHS greets Austrojet
(06.08.2008)
Aeroflot Cargo in Leipzig
(19.06.2008)
Cyprus Turkish Airlines & AHS team up at MUC
(01.06.2008)
Dusseldorf gets a Royal visit
(01.06.2008)
Armavia at Dusseldorf
(01.06.2008)
Aurora over Hanover
(30.05.2008)
Wind Rose pointing East
(23.05.2008)
Arkia: Now also at Berlin
(08.05.2008)
The Maltese Cross over Saxony
(07.05.2008)
Arkia: Welcome back
(01.04.2008)
From the Baltic Sea to Germany's alpine South
(30.03.2008)
Shalom Israir
(29.03.2008)
CONDOR and AHS – 3rd Act
(01.02.2008)
VLM - new customer in Hamburg
(16.01.2008)
AHS gives a warm welcome to Orenair
(07.01.2008)
CSA and AHS - A renewed partnership
(16.11.2007)
Small but dynamic - AHS' new customer ACB
(05.11.2007)
Condor and AHS - Taking flight
(29.10.2007)
A gateway to Africa - AFRIQIYAH
(29.10.2007)
Air Mauritius now also in FRA
(07.09.2007)