Swissport, the world's largest ground-handling provider, has been appointed by Blue Islands as its new ground handling partner in Jersey. A worldwide organisation, Swissport serves around 224 million passengers each year and employs over 55,000 staff.

The benefits of employing well established companies with long reaching arms are well known by Managing Director Rob Veron:

Swissport is the world's largest professional, long-standing specialist ground-handling agent with a global presence. Our shared focus on an exceptional customer experience will prove a great benefit to all passengers travelling though our Jersey base. We look forward to offering this service to our customers in the coming weeks.

Swissport will be looking after all passenger ground handling in Jersey airport, to include passenger check in, boarding and all baggage handling.

We are extremely proud of our service record and the strong relationship we have developed with Blue Islands over a number of years. We are all delighted that our high performance and strong value proposition have been recognised and that the partnership is now set to be extended in Jersey,

says a spokesperson from the company. Blue Islands also employ the services of Swissport in Bristol and Southampton airports.