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Feb 06, 2013 (newstodate): Wizz Air has named a new ground handling provider for its operations at Bulgaria's Sofia Airport.
Following a tender process that attracted bids also from its current provider Swissport as well as Goldair Handling Bulgaria, Wizz Air chose Sofia Airport's own ground handling arm to provide services for the next three years.
Swissport thus lost a customer at the airport, but already on December 29, 2012, the company filed two claims with the EU Commission for Protection of Competition because of alleged "practices at Sofia Airport that have undermined competition and created an unsustainable ground handling
market."
A claim against Goldair was been filed citing "unfair competition prohibitions and, more precisely, provision of services at prices below cost."
The second claim relates to suspicions about the dominant position Sofia Airport holds in the ground handling market at the airport,
as operator and administrator of the entire airport infrastructure.
"This gives it a very serious advantage in the competitive ground handling segment, both in terms of facilities and costs", says Swissport.
Following a tender process that attracted bids also from its current provider Swissport as well as Goldair Handling Bulgaria, Wizz Air chose Sofia Airport's own ground handling arm to provide services for the next three years.
Swissport thus lost a customer at the airport, but already on December 29, 2012, the company filed two claims with the EU Commission for Protection of Competition because of alleged "practices at Sofia Airport that have undermined competition and created an unsustainable ground handling
market."
A claim against Goldair was been filed citing "unfair competition prohibitions and, more precisely, provision of services at prices below cost."
The second claim relates to suspicions about the dominant position Sofia Airport holds in the ground handling market at the airport,
as operator and administrator of the entire airport infrastructure.
"This gives it a very serious advantage in the competitive ground handling segment, both in terms of facilities and costs", says Swissport.