The company provides ground handling services to airline customers, which include loading and unloading of aircraft, baggage handling, cargo and mail delivery, ramp coordination, aircraft-load control, jet bridge and passenger steps operation, unit load device storage and crew transportation.
The new company effectively replaced in this role the earlier Hong Kong Air Terminal Services, a 34-year-old Jardine Matheson / Swire Pacific joint venture that had served the same functions at Kai Tak International Airport since 1961.
With no remaining franchise, Hongkong Air Terminal Services ceased business alongside the old airport and was eventually wound up in mid-2009.
[7] On December 1st 2008, Cathay Pacific agreed to take the remaining stake of Hong Kong Airport Services, and it became a wholly owned subsidiary.
Since the acquisition, employees of Hong Kong Airport Services represented Cathay Dragon for the ground handling part.