Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) recently clinched a three-year contract to provide ramp handling for Lufthansa Group’s flights at Newark Liberty International Airport. Under the terms of the agreement, the start of each airline’s summer schedules sees the WFS team in Newark responsible for handling Lufthansa’s three flights a day serving Frankfurt, Dusseldorf and Munich as well as Austrian Airlines’ and SWISS International Airlines’ daily services. The new … [Read more...] about Lufthansa Group picks WFS in Newark
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A strong start to 2018 for Worldwide Flight Services in North America
Worldwide Flight Services’ (WFS) North American operations have made a successful start to 2018 by winning and renewing cargo handling, ramp and passenger services contracts with airline customers at eight U.S. stations. At Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, WFS won the freighter handling contract for Turkish Airlines’ new twice-weekly flights to Istanbul. The agreement extends WFS’ existing relationship with the airline. New cargo handling contracts have … [Read more...] about A strong start to 2018 for Worldwide Flight Services in North America
Ground Handling Supplement
SATS Ltd A recap of 2017 In the first 11 months of 2017 (Jan to Nov), Changi Airport handled a total of 1.94M tonnes of cargo. This is an 8 per cent increase from the 1.79M tonnes of cargo handled in Jan to Nov 2016. Likewise, SATS has also seen a satisfactory increase in the volume of cargo handled in the air freight terminals in Singapore, and in its associate companies/subsidiaries across Asia and the Middle East. There have been a few notable achievements for SATS’ … [Read more...] about Ground Handling Supplement
Egyptair extends its cargo partnership with WFS
Egyptair has awarded a new cargo and mail handling contract to Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) in Amsterdam and Brussels, extending its relationship with WFS at both airports. The three-year contract, which commences in March 2018, will see WFS handling cargo and mail for the airline’s daily Boeing 737-800 from Amsterdam to Cairo as well as its five times weekly 737-800 services from Brussels to Egypt’s capital city. In 2017, Egyptair chose WFS to also provide trucking services connecting … [Read more...] about Egyptair extends its cargo partnership with WFS
WFS opens pharma facility in Copenhagen and wins new Air India contract
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS), the world’s largest air cargo handler, is continuing to enhance its ability to handle pharmaceutical cargoes with the opening of a new temperature-controlled facility in Copenhagen. The investment is in support of WFS’ airline customers’ growing pharma volumes and WFS’ own IATA CEIV Pharma certification programme in Denmark, which it expects to complete in early 2018. The facility has the capacity to store up to 16 cargo units and offers separate … [Read more...] about WFS opens pharma facility in Copenhagen and wins new Air India contract
WFS gains IATA CEIV Pharma Cert in Brussels
Pharma volumes handled by WFS in Brussels rose by some 170% in 2016 and will soar to a new high in 2017. Volumes in the first 10 months of the year have already exceeded three million kilos. Marc Claesen, regional vice president of WFS in Belgium, said: “We are proud to be the first WFS station in Europe with CEIV accreditation and to be supporting our customers and the efforts of Brussels Airport to create the world’s first CEIV-certified airport community.” The … [Read more...] about WFS gains IATA CEIV Pharma Cert in Brussels
