Ground handling services : Proposal earmarked for scrapping

"No foreseeable agreement," sums up the European Commission to justify in its draft work programme for 2015, seen by Europolitics , its intention to withdraw the proposal for a directive on further liberalisation of ground handling services at European airports. With this December 2011 proposal, the Commission aimed to require airports to permit a larger number of service providers to offer services such as freight and baggage handling, cleaning and refuelling of aircraft and so on. The reform was sought…