Edinburgh's Menzies on the ascent with Air Canada wins at two major airports & More News Here

The agency has additionally received new enterprise with the similar Canadian service at Copenhagen Airport.

Air Canada has as soon as once more chosen Menzies to ship passenger, ramp, cabin cleansing and lounge providers at Heathrow, the airline’s largest airport operation internationally.

With a long-term length, the renewal is predicted to see the Scots group assist 3,700 “aircraft turns” every year, as Air Canada returns to pre-pandemic flight volumes at the London hub.

In addition, Menzies has received a brand new contract to supply passenger, ramp, cabin cleansing and de-icing providers for Air Canada at Copenhagen.

Air Canada is a worldwide buyer for the capital agency, which serves the service in areas throughout Europe, the Americas and Australia.

Miguel Gomez, govt vice chairman, Europe, Menzies Aviation, mentioned: “We are proud to build on our partnership with Air Canada at Heathrow Airport and win a new contract at Copenhagen Airport. Air Canada is a global customer for Menzies and these latest awards are a testament to our teams, who deliver safe, secure and efficient services day in, day out for our customers.”

Bosses at Menzies lately accepted a takeover provide by a Kuwaiti agency, making a enterprise with a mixed international headcount of 35,000.

John Menzies began out in 1833 when its eponymous founder opened a bookshop at 61 Princes Street, Edinburgh. The newspaper and journal distribution enterprise was spun out in 2018, creating Menzies Distribution, and leaving the remainder of the agency to focus on offering aviation providers globally.

Earlier this month, Menzies Aviation secured a collection of contract wins at Los Angeles International Airport, its largest location in the Americas.

The agency has secured a brand new contract with Level, IAG’s low-cost airline, to supply full floor providers at Los Angeles, additionally identified by its code LAX. Menzies now offers full protection to the IAG Group of airways at LAX, together with British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus and now Level.

The agency has additionally been awarded a contract with Mexican cargo service MAS to assist its each day freighter flights. Bosses mentioned this win “further solidifies” the firm as the most well-liked ramp handler for freighter plane at Los Angeles.

Additionally, Menzies and LATAM Group’s international relationship “continues to go from strength to strength” with the former extending its ramp dealing with contract and including full passenger dealing with to the listing of providers for the Latin American airline’s twice each day flights at LAX.

The group operates at greater than 210 airports in 38 international locations, supported by a worldwide staff of 27,000 individuals.

In 2021, Menzies Aviation dealt with some 600,000 plane turns, some 1.7 million tonnes of cargo and fuelled 2.5 million turnarounds. Customers embrace Air Canada, Air France-KLM, American Airlines, EasyJet, IAG, Qantas Group, Qatar Airways, Southwest, United Airlines and WizzAir.

Following the takeover, the mixed enterprise is predicted to deal with in extra of 600,000 plane turns a 12 months at greater than 250 airports.