EU Regulators Approve Swissport’s Acquisition Of Servisair

Dec. 23, 2013
Both ground handling service providers, however, must dispose of operations at four airports.

European antitrust regulators have cleared Swissport’s acquisition of Servisair, subject to  the "divestment" of Swissport’s ground handling activities at Birmingham Airport and Servisair’s ground handling activities at Helsinki, London Gatwick and Newcastle airports.

The ground handling rivals announced they had begun talks last July and notified the European Commission (EC) of their plans Oct. 29.