Single agency to be entrusted with ground handling services at Chennai airport

Chennai: Ground handling services at the Chennai airport, now being handled by more than 40 agencies, will be handed over to a single agency appointed by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) from January 1, 2011.
The AAI has entrusted the work to Bhadra International, a New Delhi-based company.
All the agencies who were involved in the ground handling work outsourced manpower. In an attempt to strengthen the security system and avoid movement of unauthorised people in terminal buildings, the AAI had issued a notification in October 2007, which stated that the work would be done by the AAI or its joint venture company; subsidiary companies of the National Aviation Company of India or its joint ventures specialised in ground handling services.
A section of airlines raised apprehensions that the new company had only a very short period of time within which it may not be able to bring in the required equipment.
A senior AAI official pointed out that push back tractors, ground power unit and air starters are the important equipment required for ground handling services at an airport.
16/12/10 P Oppili/The Hindu

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Categories: Airports Dec 2010