[5] As part of the Swissair financial crisis, Swissport was first purchased by the British private equity firm Candover Investments and later sold in August 2005 to the Spanish construction company Ferrovial.

At the end of 2010, Ferrovial sold Swissport for €654 million to the French private equity firm PAI Partners.

[7] In August 2013, Swissport announced the acquisition of competitor Servisair [8] which bought Handlex in Canada, a part of the group Transat in 2012.

[12] On 31 July 2015, China's HNA Group, the parent company of Hainan Airlines, announced that it would purchase Swissport for $2.81 billion US.

[16] In December 2020, Swissport had completed its comprehensive financial restructuring that began in August 2020.