Swissport expands in Saudi Arabia with two new contracts

Airport ground services provider, Swissport, has won new contracts from the Dutch airline KLM and the Indian carrier IndiGo in Saudi Arabia, the company said in a statement on Thursday.

The company will provide KLM with ground handling services in Dammam while IndiGo will initially be handled by Swissport at Jeddah, followed by Dammam and Riyadh, the statement said.

As of Feb. 1, 2019, Swissport will be providing the full range of ground services from passenger services to ramp operations to KLM for its ten weekly flights at King Fahd airport in Dammam. It will serve KLM’s Airbus A330 widebody aircraft during the stopovers of flights between Amsterdam and Muscat in Oman.

As of March 15, 2019, Swissport will handle IndiGo’s daily flights at Jeddah, followed by Dammam in April and Riyadh in September.

“Our businesses in Saudi Arabia and Oman have developed from two greenfield start-ups into established organizations in just a couple of years”, says Nils Knudsen, chief commercial officer of Swissport International AG.

In addition to the new business with KLM and IndiGo, Swissport recently commenced operations with Fly Dubai, Jordan Aviation, Fly Baghdad and Sun Express for airport ground services in Jeddah and has already started serving them.