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A lost tender competition causes Widerøe Ground Handling employees at Bergen Flesland Airport to lose their jobs.
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The case is being updated …
Bergensavisen reports.
Widerøe confirms to E24 that there are around 130 employees.
Widerøe Ground Handling offers ground services to various airlines in Flesland. The company has lost the tender contract it had with SAS.
– Aviation is one of the industries that was affected by the COVID-19 earlier, harder and that will be affected for the longest time. When the demand for flights decreases, we as subcontractors have less to do. In addition, we are in a market sensitive to tenders, with contracts of between three and five years with each client. This year, we unfortunately did not catch up and lost the SAS bid in Flesland to Aviator, company director Marius Myhre tells BA.
This summer it became clear that Widerøe Ground Handling lost its SAS contracts at Bergen, Tromsø and Kristiansand airports. The company had its SAS agreements extended at Kirkenes, Alta, Lakselv, Svalbard, Evenes, Bodø, Trondheim, Kristiansund, Molde, Stavanger, Haugesund and Ålesund airports.
The union representative in the Widerøe Ground handling workshop club, Trond Arne Skarlo, tells BA that the situation is very demanding.
– He has been demanding since March. We now have only one focus, and that is to take care of each other as best we can.
He has no comment beyond this.
