SAS Ground Handling

SAS Ground Handling is the largest ground-handling company in Scandinavia.

SAS Ground Handling serves more than 30 airports in Denmark, Norway and Sweden and has about 8400 employees.

As part of the Core-SAS strategy formed by the SAS Group in February 2009, some of SAS Ground Handling operations were divested or outsourced:[citation needed] On 7 March 2013 Swissport International Ltd. ("Swissport") and Scandinavian Airline Systems ("SAS") announced that they signed a letter of intent creating the basis for continued negotiations between the two companies, aiming at an agreement to transfer full ownership of SAS Ground Handling in Denmark, Sweden and Norway to Swissport.

At the same time, Swissport, in according with the letter of intent, have bought 10% shares in each of these three divisions, while negotiations still continued.

[citation needed] In May 2016 SAS, however, announced its intentions to retain control of the operations at main airports.