Aviapartner

Aviapartner

Industry	Aviation
Founded	1949 (as Belgavia)
Headquarters	Brussels Airport, Belgium
Key people	Laurent Levaux, CEO
Services	Aircraft ground handling Aircraft maintenance
Website	www.aviapartner.aero

Aviapartner, whose origins date back to 1949 under the name of Herfurth Air Services to become 'Belgavia' in the late 1960s, is a Belgian company that provides aircraft ground handling services at 32 airports in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and The Netherlands. Among the airports served are Amsterdam, Brussels, Berlin-Tegel, Frankfurt A.M., Milan, Rome, Nice and Paris-CDG. Herfurth/Belgavia started aircraft handling at Antwerp,Deurne airport and extended its activities at Ostend airport in the early 1960s. Later it started handling at Brussels and other airports. On June 9, 2011 Aviapartner lost its operating license at Brussels Airport to Swiss-based Swissport for a period of 7 years. But the court broke this decision. Aviapartern kept its licence and Swissport merged with FlightCare, the second aircraft ground services company at Brussels Airport. Note that there are only two licences at Brussels airport.

Range of ground handling services

• Passenger handling:

Check-in, ticketing, boarding assistance, lost and found baggage services, assistance to disabled passengers, passenger ground transportation.

• Ramp handling:

Loading and unloading of baggage and cargo to/from aircraft on the ramp, ground power provision for aircraft, cleaning, water and sanitary services, freight and baggage transfer to terminal, crew transfer from aircraft to terminal/hotel, pushback and towing, with headset, aircraft de-icing.

• Traffic operations:

Preparation of flight documentation, ground to air communication, calculation of weight and balance, set-up of loadsheet, crew briefing, flight supervision.

• Cargo handling:

Warehousing, palletizing, import and export procedures, customs clearance, trucking services.

• Courier handling:

Transfer of courier and express shipments to/from other warehouses and aircraft, handling of express flights operated from the Brussels Airport Courier center.

Corporate Airlines at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol