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Following an ASA Board Meeting, and whilst attending the IATA Ground Handling Conference (IGHC) in Reykjavik, Iceland, the Aviation Service Providers Association (ASA) calls for an immediate change in the working relationships between airlines, airports, and aviation service providers and for the adoption of global regulatory requirements in the wake of the EASA Opinion released earlier in January.

Proposed European Union (EU) ground handling regulations are expected to be published in late 2024 or early 2025 and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has recommended a transition period of three years for implementation after the publication of the regulation.

Ekali, 17 March 2024: This year’s awards ceremony for the Air Transport Awards took place next to the 2024 Air Transport Symposium with the participation of industry leaders. 

This week, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) announced regulatory proposals for ground handling operations at EU airports – a move that ground handlers have praised with “excitement”.

William Hallowell is joined by Fabio Gamba, director general of the Airport Services Association, and Henrik Ambak, chairman of the Air Cargo Handling & Logistics conference, to give reactions to the new ground handling regulations being proposed by EASA (European Union Aviation Safety Agency) this week.

COLOGNE, January 16, 2024 – The European Union Aviation Safety Agency published the first-ever proposal to regulate ground handling across European Union airports, to increase the safety, cybersecurity and consistency of all the actions that happen on the ground before and after a flight, delivering benefits to passengers and their airlines.

The three global associations will work together to strengthen collaboration between forwarders, handlers, and airlines, to drive unified high standards

ASA Leadership Forum | 5th-7th September 2022

Ahead of ICAO's 2021 High Level Conference from 12 to 22 October, the Air Services Association (ASA) and the Airports Council Association (ACI) have published a joint paper, which reiterates the importance of ground handling as a key component of the long

GHI’s Digital Reconnect Americas is an innovative 2-day virtual event offering a winning combination of One-to-One virtual meetings and keynote conference sessions on overcoming pandemic disruption.

ASA is pleased to announce that the UK Government has launched the Airports and Ground Operations Support Scheme in England.

Open letter to Ms. Ursula von der Leyen, President, European Commission The undersigned associations, representing the travel and tourism sectors and their workers, are fully supportive of the Commission’s proposed EU coordination framework for travel

ASA and Airport College International Ltd. are excited to announce the signing of a Cooperation Agreement for online training.

Open letter to the air transport authorities

Today the European Commission released its guidelines to help Member States gradually lift travel restrictions and allow tourism and aviation businesses to reopen.

In light of the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis, Europeans are no longer able to travel.

In light of the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis, Europeans are no longer able to travel.

To the Attention of the EU-27 Ministries of Transport/Depts of Civil Aviation and Finance.

As the outbreak of the coronavirus continues...

A significant amount of used ground support equipment (GSE) in excellent condition are not put to use.

Steve Allen and Fabio Gamba have been appointed as the new Chair and Director General of ASA.

Source: EASA

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This guidance has been produced as part of a UK Modern Slavery Training Group awareness campaign.

From pilots and pursers to ground operatives, maintenance engineers and passenger check-in agents – the UK aviation industry is suffering from acute skills shortages across the breadth of job functions within our sector.

On the 23rd August 2018, the Chief Operating Officer of Heathrow Airport Ltd, Mr Chris Garton, wrote to all airlines and ground service providers [GSPs] operating at LHR.

To increase work efficiency throughout the organisation, Havas Ground Handling Co would like to announce the following change effective 1st July 2018.

Source: KPMG

On 12th June, the European Parliament adopted the revision of the EASA basic regulation (EC No. 216/2008).

In response to some membership enquiries, there is NO mandatory requirement for airlines (or their suppliers) to comply with this resolution using an automated solution.

Singapore – The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is calling for urgent attention to address infrastructure challenges in order to secure the industry’s future.

The latest version of the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Standard Ground Handling Agreement (SGHA) went live on 1 January 2018.

CARGO IQ JOINS FORCES WITH FIATA AND ASA TO DRIVE GLOBAL STANDARDS ACROSS ALL The three global associations will work together to strengthen collaboration between forwarders, handlers, and airlines, to drive unified high standards