Around 200 AHS employees have asked the city of Hanover and the state of Lower Saxony for support in the Corona crisis. They are demanding that AHS Hannover be fully integrated into the parent company of the airport.
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Employees of the ground handling service provider AHS at Hanover Airport have requested a rescue package and integration into the airport company. The background to this is that only the employees of the airport’s wholly-owned subsidiaries received an increase in short-time allowance.
The AHS group was not set up in a crisis-proof manner, it said. “If the passenger air traffic starts again soon, the work of the AHS colleagues will be systemically relevant for the airport,” said Marian Drews from the Verdi union. “Without them, no aircraft will take off.”
AHS Hannover is 51 percent owned by the airport
It is therefore only fair when employees demand the same protection that their colleagues get at sister companies. The airport as well as city and country as shareholders are obliged to put up a rescue package.
According to Verdi, the AHS Hannover subsidiary is 51 percent owned by the airport and 49 percent by AHS Holding. According to the information, the employees in Hanover-Langenhagen are responsible, among other things, for passenger check-in and boarding.
In addition to Hanover, Aviation Handling Services operates branches at six other airports in Germany: Bremen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne and Munich are part of the Hamburg service provider’s network. The AHS group had already withdrawn from Berlin Tegel and Schönefeld at the end of December.
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