Lawmakers question Swissport over $170m in Covid-19 funds

03/08/2020

You’ve got to feel sorry for the handlers; it’s been a tough few months. And it looks like it’s not getting better any time soon. Swissport USA, according to Freightwaves, laid off thousands of workers, despite taking federal money from the payroll support programme. And it’s not gone unnoticed by authorities. Swissport denies any wrongdoing and says it is in full compliance with the conditions, and all money received will be spent on wages. But lawmakers don’t seem to agree.

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Rayhan ahmed
August 03, 2020 at 4:26 pm
I have made many comments in aviation e newsletters that heathrow should pull the plug
On the ground handling licence of swissport .
I have worked for swissport GH from 2002 to
2004 and I was placed redundant by the most
Cruel means by the company . We were hit by
Redundancy out of the blue .. I had a heavy
Mortgage to pay .. bills to pay .. and a family to look after with our first children who was 9 yrs
Old at that time .
I was on annual leave because of Ramadan and I found out after 2 weeks when I rang up the
Ramp operations team to find out what roster
I was on in the morning .. but I was told that
Company had shut down and receivers had
Moved in .
Now since then 2004 they have done 2 copy cat
Redundancy’s at Heathrow 2018 in terminal 4
And again 2020 .
Why does heathrow allow this time and time again 3 times this all happened the company
Comes into operations and then few 1 or 2 years
Down the line it makes redundancy’s why are they giving false hopes to people .
This company was originally aerlingus GH and I joined then only 1or 2 yrs after the take over
By this Zurich based ground handler .
They are operating at full capacity at Zurich
Airport being the main ground handlers for
Each and every airlines why are they not
Making redundancy there or closing shop .
Look let’s cut the story short wake up EASA and
Pull these peoples ground handling licence so they stop making there petty cash and making
Redundancy… if someone else had wrttien this
Paragraph… I would say bravo bravo !!!!!!!!!!!

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