Company Profile  

Aviapartner Belgium, whose origin goes back to 1949 (previously Belgavia) offers handling services at 4 Belgian airports: Antwerp, Brussels, Liège and Ostend . At Liège airport, services are operated by Aviapartner Liège, a joint venture with the airport authorities.

• Passenger handling: check-in, ticketing, boarding assistance, lost and found baggage services, assistance to disabled passengers, passenger ground transportation
• Aircraft handling: loading and unloading, ground power, cleaning, water and sanitary services, freight and baggage transfer, crew transfer, headset, pushback and towing, aircraft de-icing
• Traffic operations: flight documentation and planning, communication, weight and balance, loadplan and loadsheet, crew briefing, total supervision
• Cargo and mail handling: warehousing, palletizing, import and export procedures, customs clearance, trucking services
• Courier handling: transfer of courier and express shipments to/from other warehouses and aircraft, handling of express flights operated from the Brussels Airport Courier center

In 2007, Aviapartner Handling Belgium handled over 45,167 flights and over 6,400,000 passengers. Aviapartner Cargo handled 392,000 (+14%) tons of cargo in Belgium. Aviapartner Belgium employs some 1,670 staff.

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Facilities and Equipment

All necessary ground support equipment to handle aircraft up to B747 (high-loaders, powerpush units, pushbacks, noselifters, towing tractors, de-icers, toilet and water carts, start units, steps, ground power units, carts, dollies).

All Aviapartner stations use a DCS information system, either on the airlines' own DCS or on Aviapartner's own Common Language Environment (ACE).

Aviapartner's cargo warehouses at Brussels airport cover 40,000 m² and the Courier Center 14,000 m². Equipment includes a wide range of forklifts, tractors, several ULD building pits and slave positions, a stacker system with 500 ULD/pallet positions, and cooled and freezer storage capacity. At Ostend airport, Aviapartner offers a wide range of cargo handling facilities, including 8,100 m² of cargo warehouses, plus 6,210 m³ of cooled storage.
In Antwerp and Liège Airport, Aviapartner offers cargo handling facilities as well.

All handling services, training and qualifications are in line with the JAR OPS.

Aviapartner Belgium's ESF training project "Aviapartner Safety, Security and Social Skills" is financed by the European Social Fund and the Flemish Authorities. ESF invests in your future: http://europa.eu.int/esf