Iberia decides to appeal to the Central Administrative Tribunal for Contractual Resources (TACR) competition ground services AenaIn eight of the main Spanish airports (Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Málaga, Alicante, Gran Canaria, Tenerife South, Ibiza and Bilbao) it lost management of this service. Airline blames airport operator “Irregularities” in the tender process According to company sources, it requests the court under the Ministry of Finance to temporarily postpone the award.
The ‘handling’ category brings together assistance with cargo and mail, including baggage assistance, assistance with operations on the runway, and physical handling between the airport terminal and the aircraft, among other tasks. A month ago, Aena concluded the tender for the provision of these services over the next seven years, with an estimated value of what is considered the largest tender in history for these services. 5 billion euros. At the airports that Iberia lost, the license was distributed among Aviapartner, Groundforce (Globalia), Menzies and Swisport.
Iberia believes that Aena violated “legal procedure” in processing contest results because “He made no argument in favor of the solution“, “claimed privacy to deny access to sufficient information to know motivation for scores” and ” failure to comply with relevant legal deadlines Upon submission of the file, he requests the Central Administrative Court to temporarily “postpone the decision” until “the claim is resolved”. Iberia,” the company says, estimating the number of workers serving at the lost airports at 4,800.
company from here seeks cancellation of awards through appeal Repetition of the “process of evaluation of bids” in Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Malaga, Alicante, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Tenerife South, Valencia, Ibiza, Arrecife-Lanzarote, Bilbao and Fuerteventura. to be resolved in a motivated manner, accompanied by a report”.
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IAG holding company takes over smaller airport shuttle There was now another operator such as Zaragoza, Valladolid, Burgos, Huesca, Logroño, Salamanca, Almería and Murcia. In addition to Madrid, where it will operate together with Aviapartner and Groundforce (Globalia), it also continued its operations in Tenerife North, Menorca, Santiago de Compostela, Girona, Asturias, La Palma, Vitoria, Reus, San Sebastián and A Coruña. , Santander, Vigo, Pamplona, León, Jerez, Granada, Badajoz, Melilla, Córdoba and Albacete.
In response to Iberia’s announcement, Aena issued a statement arguing that the competition met the allocation criteria”objective, transparent and non-discriminatory, previously discussed Airlines and unions“and while he questions the results at the eight airports for which Iberia lost its licence, he warns, “this is not the case at the 30 airports for which it acquired licences.”
“The airport manager appeals to the airline’s responsibility to its employees and passengers and asks it to decide on the possibility of ‘automatic processing’ to Iberia and other airlines in the IAG group,” he adds. According to the outcome of the competition, Iberia will have to stop providing handling services at these airports, but will be able to provide services at these airports for itself and for airlines belonging to its own group, such as Vueling, Level or British Airways. This is called ‘automatic trading’. “Aena requests that the decision on automatic handling be made as soon as possible and that in the event of a negative response, Iberia cooperates in the transition of licenses,” the airport operator adds.