BA World Cargo outsources its Gatwick handling contract to WFS

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Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has won the contract to provide cargo handling for British Airways World Cargo (BAWC) at London’s Gatwick Airport.
The new contract, effective December 1st 2012, will see approximately half of the airline’s cargo team at Gatwick transfer to WFS, the world’s largest air cargo handling organisation which handles over four million tonnes of cargo per annum for some 300 airline and airport customers at 120 stations globally. The remaining members of the BAWC staff at Gatwick will be offered positions by the airline at London Heathrow.