How Ground Handlers Can Comply with Proposed EASA Regulations

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.

05
APR
2024

ASA Honored with Prestigious Award at the 2024 ATN Air Transport Awards

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. 

18
MAR
2024

Podcast - New EU ground handling regulations: industry reacts – The Aviation Briefing with William Hallowell

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.

18
JAN
2024

Ground handlers welcome EASA’s proposed regulations

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”.

18
JAN
2024

EASA proposes first EU-wide regulation on ground handling

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.

16
JAN
2024

ASA JOINS FORCES WITH CARGO IQ and FIATA TO DRIVE GLOBAL STANDARDS ACROSS ALL SECTORS IN AIR CARGO

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

30
MAY
2023






ASA Leadership Forum

ASA Leadership Forum | 5th-7th September 2022

21
DEC
2021


ACI and ASA issue a joint paper ahead of the ICAO High Level Conference 2021

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

15
SEP
2021

Calling the Americas – get ready for the new normal at GHI’s Digital Reconnect Americas

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.

12
MAR
2021

UK Government launches Airport and Ground Operators Support Scheme (AGOSS) in England

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

05
FEB
2021

Open letter to Ms. Ursula von der Leyen, President, European Commission

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

21
NOV
2020

Airport College International and Airport Services Association sign a Cooperation Agreement

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

01
SEP
2020


Supporting the safe resumption of travel and rebooting Europe’s tourism in 2020 and beyond

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

14
MAY
2020


Daily Briefing on COVID-19 Relief Measures

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

14
APR
2020

Europe’s aviation industry is facing an unprecedented liquidity crisis - the European Union must act now!

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

06
APR
2020

Avoiding the collapse of the European Air Transport Sector

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

23
MAR
2020

Coronavirus best practices for GHSPs

As the outbreak of the coronavirus continues...

31
JAN
2020

Interested in purchasing used GSE equipment?

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

19
NOV
2019


Airport Services Association announces new Chair & Director General

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

01
APR
2019


Who cares about ULD?

For starters, ULD CARE does?—?and with good reason, since our members include representatives of airlines that between them own a very large part of the world’s ULD fleet.

31
JAN
2019

Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking A Guide for the UK Aviation Industry

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

05
NOV
2018

Discover how highly engaged employees mean high quality turns at GHI's Leaders Academy

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.

09
OCT
2018

London Heathrow leads the way?

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.

07
SEP
2018


HAVAS management changes

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

02
JUL
2018

26
JUN
2018

European Parliament adopted the revision of the EASA basic regulation (EC No. 216/2008)

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

13
JUN
2018


Clarification of IATA Resolution 753

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.

01
JUN
2018



Address Infrastructure Crisis to Secure Aviation’s Future

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

10
JAN
2018

Reviewing Iata’s Standard Ground Handling Agreement 2018

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

02
JAN
2018

CARGO IQ JOINS FORCES WITH FIATA AND ASA

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

30
NOV
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