Number of employees circa 2000 Founded 1987 | ||
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Type Aircraft ground handling Headquarters London Heathrow Airport Products Aircraft ground handling Airport lounges | ||
dnata Ltd, formerly Plane Handling Ltd, is one of the largest independent aircraft ground handling companies in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1987 at Radius Park. The company specialises in ground and cargo handling and is headquartered at London Heathrow Airport.
dnata UK runs services at Heathrow and Manchester Airports. Its clients include EVA Air, Emirates, Singapore, Etihad, Virgin Atlantic Airways, Air India, Jet, Cathay Pacific and other international airlines at Heathrow.
As Plane Handling, the company was owned by the Go-Ahead Group until it was sold along with parts of Aviance UK to dnata in December 2009. The company was subsequently renamed under the dnata brand.
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Dnata UK Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA