AHS Aviation Handling Services

The AHS Management Board under Erich Schultz was strengthened in 2002 with the addition of Reinhardt Erdmann-Leutner. By the end of 2003, the airport corporations of Munster/Osnabruck and Nuremberg joined in as company shareholders through their mutual daughter company AirPart Ltd. 40% of the company's shares then went to Hanover, 35% to Hamburg, 1... 4% to Bremen, 10% to Munster/Osnabruck and 1% to AirPart. In the same year, AHS also opened an operation center in Germany's largest airport in Frankfurt. In 2005, AHS acquired 49% of the stake in S. Stuttgart Ground Services Ltd at Stuttgart Airport from Swissport Germany Ltd. At the same time, the airport company in Stuttgart became another of AHS' shareholders. The company's shares are now distributed between Hanover (34.75%), Hamburg (32.25%), Bremen (12%), Stuttgart (10%), Munster/Osnabruck (10%) and AirPart (1%). At the end of 2005, AHS took over LTU's ground operations at Dusseldorf Airport and established a new company, the AHS EuroGround Ltd., specifically for this purpose. Michael Latta was appointed Managing Director. AHS opened another operation center at the Dresden Airport in 2005. Managing Director Erich Schultz retired in 2006 and Ulrike Riedel joined Reinhardt Erdmann-Leutner on the AHS Management Board. Reinhardt Erdmann-Leutner served as Chairman of the Board. At the beginning of 2009, AHS EuroGround and AHS DUSSELDORF as well as the AHS operating center in Frankfurt were combined under the umbrella of the AHS Administration and Holdings Ltd. and reformed into limited partnerships. Reinhardt Erdmann-Leutner and Michael Latta became Managing Directors. Following the departure of Ulrike Riedel in 2009, Amélie Charisius joined Reinhardt Erdmann-Leutner as Managing Director. In mid-2009, AHS took over the operation centers of the subsidiaries of Swissport Germany Ltd. at the Berlin airports Tegel and Schonefeld as well as Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Cologne and Munich. The new business unit operated under the name AHS German Ground Ltd. ...Read More