Swissport in Germany has won a major contract from Eurowings at the airline’s home base at Cologne Bonn Airport. The cooperation covers passenger services and aircraft turnaround coordination and will start this summer. For the new contract, Swissport will hire approximately 180 new employees.
The new contract between Swissport and Eurowings, the leisure airline of the Lufthansa Group, is set to come into effect at Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) at the latest in July 2022. Swissport, one of the leaders in airport ground services and long-time partner of Lufthansa and SWISS, is expected to serve approximately 310 Eurowings flights per week or 16,000 flights per year. Swissport will serve Eurowings passengers at check-in and at the gate, run the lost and found service as well as the ticket office and also coordinate aircraft turnarounds for the Eurowings fleet at Cologne Bonn. For the new contract, Swissport will soon start to recruit approximately 180 new employees.