The new European Commission may scrap plans to open up airport ground handling services to more competition amid criticism from airports, which say such a move could hit the quality of services.
The reform would give airlines more choice of service providers and increase the minimum number of providers at large airports.
But the Commission said in a draft document that it was unlikely to get wide agreement on the reform.
Currently, European airports with more than 15 million passengers a year should allow at least two core ground handling providers, and the Commission had wanted to increase that number to three.
However, the Airports Council International Europe (ACI), which represent 450 airports in 45 European countries, argued that increasing the number of ground handling providers at airports could make operations more complicated.
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