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Meeting of Airports Council International in Turin

"Ground handling-Managing for the future" was the title of the congress organized in Turin on 13 April by ACI Europe, an association representing about 400 European airports. The event, hosted by the Lingotto Convention Center, was organized with the support of SAGAT, the Turin airport management company.
Subject of the symposium was the status of the application ot the EU directive to liberalize the ground handling services in the airports of the member countries. Italy, in particular, implemented by law the EU directive on 13 January this year.

The transfer of ground handling services from the traditional airport management entities to different and competing subjects is in progressive development, although with different timing and situations in the various countries. "The ground handling market in Europe will be much more equilibrate within a couple of years" affirmed Philippe Hamon, Director ACI Europe, at the press conference.

In the picture: the press conference of the 1999 ACI Europe meeting inside the glass dome of the Lingotto convention center in Turin.

(Aeromedia, April 1999)