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Jan 27, 2011 (newstodate): American Airlines has contracted Malev Ground Handling to provide ground handling services at Budapest Ferihery Airport.
The carrier is to launch direct nonstop flights from New York to Budapest from April 4, 2011, using Boeing 767-300ER aircraft on the route.
With Malev as its single largest customer, Malev Ground Handling holds about 60 percent of the handling business at the airport, with more than 20 airline customers.
Also operating in the airport as a ground handling provider is the Turkish company Celebi Ground Handling that won a tender in 2006, while Swissport, providing cargo handling at the airport since December 2004, decided to pull out from Budapest from January 31, 2011, after a legal row with the Directorate of Air Transport of Hungary's National Transport Authority that withdrew Swissport's regulated-agent status in 2009, claiming that a license was required for the company's off-airport operation and ordered the cessation of business activities.
In October 2009, the European Commission sent a letter of formal notice to remind the Hungarian authorities of the need to comply with the obligations incumbent on them under Directive 96/67/EC on access to the ground handling market at Community airports.
The carrier is to launch direct nonstop flights from New York to Budapest from April 4, 2011, using Boeing 767-300ER aircraft on the route.
With Malev as its single largest customer, Malev Ground Handling holds about 60 percent of the handling business at the airport, with more than 20 airline customers.
Also operating in the airport as a ground handling provider is the Turkish company Celebi Ground Handling that won a tender in 2006, while Swissport, providing cargo handling at the airport since December 2004, decided to pull out from Budapest from January 31, 2011, after a legal row with the Directorate of Air Transport of Hungary's National Transport Authority that withdrew Swissport's regulated-agent status in 2009, claiming that a license was required for the company's off-airport operation and ordered the cessation of business activities.
In October 2009, the European Commission sent a letter of formal notice to remind the Hungarian authorities of the need to comply with the obligations incumbent on them under Directive 96/67/EC on access to the ground handling market at Community airports.